Re: [Bug-tar] need to build a Windows tar

[Joerg Schilling]

Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> wrote:

> > It seems that stat() on Win-DOS does no deliver inode numbers and as a 
> > result 
> > of the fact that the struct stat definition defines ino_t as short make it 
> > impossible to even write a work around for this important standard 
> > compliance 
> > bug. Note that MS internally has the important and needed inode number but 
> > it 
> > is not forwarded to standard compliant software.
>
>
> With libarchive, we had to use Windows-specific code to
> work around this.  Fortunately, it only affected a couple
> of places (the parts of libarchive that actually deal
> with disk attributes are pretty well isolated).

Star has this clean separation since February 1985 when I ported star from UNOS 
to UNIX. Nowadays, libfind is pretty tight written around struct stat and 
libfind fives a lot of interesting features to star and mkisofs.

But when you have been able to work around the problem, I should be able to do 
the same.


I did already write a readdir() amulation with Win-DOS specific code....

Jörg

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