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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> If we aggree that you provide documentation and that none of the sun tar 
> enhancement that has been introduced after June 16th 2004 (using deprecated 
> methods) needs to be supported but only the functionality needs to be present, 
> this wouls be easy to achieve.

That will not be agreed to - any replacement of tar must support all
enhancements that were made to Solaris tar up until the time of replacement.
We can't tell users to throw away all the tar files they have from the last
3 years.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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