From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>, simh@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 2bsd tarball -> pdtar, with a side of uuslave
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:42:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpirBComWW3e4z+328YHAOgzqemRQ9DHpch=7_r+87A5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tqA1hP7eBs7WL3B7QB8bn+L34=QPcXbgyyWZ7qWmf=OeA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 23:03 [TUHS] 2bsd tarball Will Senn
2020-07-29 0:09 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-29 0:19 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-29 0:45 ` Will Senn
2020-07-29 0:46 ` Will Senn
2020-07-29 0:21 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-29 9:50 ` [TUHS] [simh] " Johnny Billquist
2020-07-29 13:52 ` John Cowan
2020-07-29 14:30 ` Johnny Billquist
2020-08-11 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
[not found] ` <5A12E0BB-4FFF-4C3E-B486-D4E852FAA97F@comcast.net>
2020-07-29 14:29 ` Johnny Billquist
2020-08-11 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-29 13:42 ` [TUHS] 2bsd tarball -> pdtar, with a side of uuslave John Gilmore
2020-07-29 15:40 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-29 19:34 ` Richard Salz
2020-07-29 19:42 ` Warner Losh [this message]
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