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Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.25: test 39 fails on FreeBSD


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.25: test 39 fails on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:49:29 -0800
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On 11/23/10 13:15, Eric Blake wrote:
> Should we instead patch gnulib's open() module to work around this bug,
> so that tar can just rely on the gnulib module for POSIX semantics
> instead of having to copy this workaround into all clients?

That might be a good idea, yes.  I'd first like to see FreeBSD's
justification for being nonstandard, though; if it's a good one we may
want to leave 'open' alone (some apps might care about the difference
maybe?).

Right now I expect only 'tar' cares about this particular failure mode,
and that it's not urgent to propagate it into gnulib.

> At any rate, this should be documented in gnulib's list of portability
> pitfalls.

Yes.



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