Re: tar: minor POSIX incompliance

[Joey Hess]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> OK, I'll change the behavior of GNU "tar" in a future release.
> 
> However, this change is irrelevant to the question of whether GNU tar
> conforms to POSIX, as POSIX does not specify the behavior of the "tar"
> command.  It is incorrect for a test suite to check for POSIX
> conformance by running the "tar" command.  A POSIX test suite should
> invoke the "pax" command instead.

I should have looked a little bit closer before filing that bug report,
as it looks like the test suite can be configured to use either tar or
pax, and is defaulted to pax.

Of course, it'd be nice if tar were fixed too, if possible, and I
appreciate you looking into it.

(Bdale, I'm going to reassign the bug report to pax.)

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