Subject: bin/2332: pax option documentation does not correspond to its behavior
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/15/1996 14:41:44
>Number:         2332
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       pax option documentation does not correspond to its behavior
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 15 15:05:07 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Greg Hudson
>Organization:
	MIT SIPB
>Release:        1.1
>Environment:
System: NetBSD glacier 1.1 NetBSD 1.1 (GLACIER) #0: Sun Jan 14 06:01:22 EST 1996 ghudson@glacier:/usr/var/tmp/build/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GLACIER i386


>Description:
	The pax documentation with regard to preserving file attributes
	appears to have fallen out of date with respect to its behavior.
	The pax man page states that -o preserves file ownerships and -p
	preserves the access time, but in fact -o is used for "format-
	specific options" and -p takes an argument specifying what file
	attributes to preserve.

>How-To-Repeat:
	pax -ro file.tar

>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: