* tar(1): document -T misbehavior
@ 2019-11-03 22:21 rgl
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From: rgl @ 2019-11-03 22:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9front
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hi there,
since we couldn't come up with a reasonable
solution to T's mistreatment of directories,
we should at least inform the user about it
to avoid surprises.
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diff -r fe7fc19b1e64 sys/man/1/tar
--- a/sys/man/1/tar Sun Nov 03 15:20:57 2019 +0100
+++ b/sys/man/1/tar Sun Nov 03 23:13:38 2019 +0100
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@
key (append)
cannot be used on compressed archives.
.PP
+The
+.B T
+key (write metadata) won't work for non-empty directories.
+.PP
.IR Tar ,
thus
.IR dircp ,
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