Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:26:16 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > > Which can be done with the -l option.  
> > 
> > You are mistaken: The -l option causes tar to warn if not all hars
> > links to a file could not be resolved.
>
> You are right. I was referring to the --one-file-system, which I thought
> had -l as the short option, but apparently not. Or has that changed in
> the last couple of years?

Tar did not change it's behavior with respect to -l during the past 31 years.

On Linux, there is frequently gtar installed as tar and gtar is not respecting 
standards. Gtar in previous times was e.g. in conflict with the standard 
regarding to -l. Aprox. 10 years ago, I files a bug report against gtar for 
this standard deviation and it seems that they fixed this bug.

Jörg

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