2009/387 [Pathname Reparse Points]

[Joerg Schilling]

Robert Thurlow <robert.thurlow at sun.com> wrote:

> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> > I'm confused.  Brian says that archivers Just Work with the current 
> > form, because the attributes are retained.  Yet, you're saying that the 
> > attributes are not necessarily retained.  Which is it?  Right now, 
> > either way, you have an attribute... which I *think* means that the you 
> > need support (which may or may not be present) in the archivers.
>
> I know that some archivers in use today will not create a different
> bitstream for a reparse point than for a regular symlink, but I
> believe our intent to set the bit on restore or create means that
> we don't have to teach all archivers about the new bit.  If any
> Sun-maintained archivers are aware, that's fine, but this should
> work with GNU tar, too.

As GNU tar does not support any platform specific feature even for Linux,
I would not care about GNU tar.....

It is more important to check whether the new feaures could confuse typical 
other existing applications.

Jörg

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