an alternative suggestion for "tar" and user/group names

Glenn L. McGrath bug1 at ihug.co.nz
Fri Apr 21 21:59:12 UTC 2006


On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:18:27 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Paul Fox wrote:
> i thought as much, i just wanted to make sure.  in that case, enabling
> "--numeric-owner" support will require enabling both long options
> *and* UID/GID support.  (i imagine it would be sufficient for the
> Config.in file to just have UID/GID support depend on long options.)

We could invent a short option, its been done before.

It would be hard to do so in a compatible and meaningfull way with tar
as GNU tar alreayd has heaps of short options.


Glenn



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