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

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

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

From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 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 10:25:01 -0500

 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