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Re: Bug in tar? (was Re: world writable /usr/lib/libguile.so.6.0.0)



On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> For one thing, it's non-portable. (IIRC, it will fail under hurd.)

Can you explain the design reason for this?

[This is likely to be rather signficant, as the underlying inode concept
is fundamental to unix file systems.]

-- 
Raul


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