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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Auto-exclude of cache directories for tar, cpio
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Joerg Schilling |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Re: Auto-exclude of cache directories for tar, cpio |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:38:41 +0200 (CEST) |
>From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>Bryan Ford <address@hidden> writes:
>> http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/
>That proposal uses a file name ".IsCacheDirectory" that is not
>portable to traditional Unix file systems that have a 14-byte limit on
>file names. Also, some non-Unix file systems have trouble
>distinguishing case. So you might want to use a name like
>".iscachedir" instead.
>The "find" command used as an example doesn't check for the required
>MD5 signature. Most likely other software will do the same. This
>suggests that the signature isn't needed. Perhaps just the existence
>of the file would be enough.
>The proposal doesn't talk about symbolic links; you probably need to
>address that issue while you're at it. For example, can
>".IsCacheDirectory"/".iscachedir" be a symbolic link to a file? a
>dangling symbolic link?
Star uses since 6 years (as an extension to the *BSD tar implementation
of the -F option) ".mirror" and ".exclude". The file .mirror is created
by typical mirroring software....
Jörg
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