Re: [Bug-tar] incompatible checksums with solaris tar, or filenamebuffer too small?

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Joerg Schilling) writes:

> Are there plans to make gtar by default create archives that are
> closer to the POSIX standard in the near future?

Surely you mean "POSIX standards", as there are multiple POSIX
standards in this area, and the latest version is evolving.

That's being said, it's easy to generate POSIX 1003.1-2001 (pax)
standard archives; just use "tar --format=pax".  If you want that to
be the default, that's easy to arrange as well.  However, I don't
recommend this; too many implementations mishandle this format right
now.