On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:35 PM Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wasn't the tour header Fields the reason for the strange strncpy
> semantics? Which came first?
>

strncpy appeared in V7 as far as I can tell. I can't find it in v6 or
earlier. I can't find any of the str functions in fact...

Also, there's a new libarchive-based tar as well that the BSDs are using
since it understands many other formats. It's largely replaced the gnutar
that had previously been in BSD.

Warneer