| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | ajmcello <ajmcello78(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4883: tar xf fails on NFS4 mounts |
| Date: | 2009-07-01 23:16:22 |
| Message-ID: | 200907012316.n61NGMS15535@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> ajmcello <ajmcello78(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The only downside with adding o to tar that I can see is if it isn't
> > supported by a non-GNU version of tar.
>
> It's required by the Single Unix Spec
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html
> (although that specifically disallows the ordering "oxf" that you
> suggest) and I see it in tar on HPUX 10.20, which ought to be about
> ancient enough for anybody.
My old BSD has:
-o Write very old style tar archive, omitting the storage of direc-
tories.
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