Re: pax mis-attributing errors to Ustar?

Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com> writes:

[...]
> Yeah, the 'pax' format is "ustar, but with special 'g' and 'x'
> records" so it mostly uses the ustar routines when working with pax
> archives.
>
> Maybe those shared routines could look up which format is actually in
> use and use that in warning messages. Might be a reasonable intro fix
> for someone...
>
>
>
> Philip Guenther

I wondered if it might be something like that. I don't think I can work
on it soon, but I'm using pax(1) all the time now. I like the command
line syntax better than tar/cpio. I'll start looking at the source
code. I hadn't done that yet.

Thanks,

--Bruce