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Re: bin/41168 (tar treats lines in files supplied to -X as globs)



The following reply was made to PR bin/41168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,  gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,  
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,  joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/41168 (tar treats lines in files supplied to -X as globs)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:04:10 -0500

 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
 > The only difference I see between gtar-base-1.22 and pax-as-tar with -X
 > is that GNU tar mishandles the case of no match at all. Otherwise they
 > behave identical.
 
 At the time that I filed this report, this did not work correctly at
 all, which Christos acked. I don't know how it works in current. If it
 works now, that is the result of something being fixed in the interim,
 and releases like 5.x should be checked to make sure they work correctly.
 
 Perry
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 Perry E. Metzger               perry%piermont.com@localhost
 


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