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

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost writes:
> Synopsis: tar treats lines in files supplied to -X as globs
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost
> State-Changed-When: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:40:50 +0000
> State-Changed-Why:
> GNU tar 1.22 at least documents the same behavior as implemented
> by pax-as-tar, namely that -X lists a file of exclude patterns.
> Therefore I would change this from an implementation bug to
> a documentation bug. Opinion?

Why don't you try them both and see. I think you'll find that they do
not behave compatibly and that this makes lots of things fail. In
particular, my system backup scripts fail using the native tar.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost