AW: tar returns error 256?

Doug Graham dgraham at nortel.com
Wed Jun 10 14:31:52 UTC 2009


Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:53:34AM +0200, Klatt Uwe wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use something like this:
>>
>>  ret = system("tar ....");
>>     
>
> Why would you ever want to do that, just link against libbusybox and
> call tar_main()
Maybe because of the following?

###       Note: libbusybox is GPL, not LGPL, and exports no stable API that
###       might act as a copyright barrier

--Doug



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