Re: Test cases that are possible candidates for a waiver
On Sun, Dec 16, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> >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.
All pax implementations I know of do it the "Solaris" way. I think
this could be a big problem if all pax implementatins compute the
chksum wrong :-(
> Could you please point me to the latest TAR test suite so I can do
> the tests myself too?
They are part of the LSB test suite.
Thorsten
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