CIFS system attributes support for cpio(1), pax(1), tar(1) [PSARC/2007/459 FastTrack timeout 08/17/2007]

[James Carlson]

Rick Matthews writes:
> Joerg objection seems to be that since he would like to see star replace the current
> Solaris cpio/pax/tar commands with a link to star, then adding an conflicting option
> to cpio/pax/tar as proposed in the FastTrack is an impediment to that ever happening.

Not really.  Joerg has noted (in other threads) that 'star' already
behaves differently when invoked as 'tar' for compatibility reasons.

> Is there any proposal in front of any ARC (or approved by any ARC) to replace these
> Solaris commands with links to star?

No.

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