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Re: Test cases that are possible candidates for a waiver



>From: Andrew Josey <ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org>

>I'll give star a whirl to see if we get any better
>results than for pax...


Mmm there are at last 2 different progras calling themselve 'pax'.
If you mean the pax implementation tat comes with Solaris 8 ff.
it seems to be easy to get better results than for pax as this pax
implementation does not compute checksums correctly in extract or
list mode.

I just put out a new alpha (1.4a13) on 

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/alpha/

that corrects two problems known for a while:

-	For unknown reasons, star did handle the size field for hard links
	as with historic (pre POSIX) tar implementaions.
	1.4a13 now correctly uses size == 0 for hardlinks.

-	I added a new compile option (use "make COPTX=-DTAR_COMPAT") 
	that tells star to handle the 'l' option as mentioned in the
	standard if the last pathname component of av[0] is
	either "tar" or "ustar".

	Star traditionally (since 1985) handles the 'l' option the
	opposite way than documented in the POSIX standard.


Could you please point me to the latest TAR test suite so I can do 
the tests myself too?

BTW:	do you already have test cases for the POSIX-1003.3-2001 extend
	TAR headers? It would be nice to be able to test the star
	implementation for correctness.




Jörg

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