Re: [Bug-tar] Errors in "posix" format.

[Joerg Schilling]

>From: Tim Kientzle <address@hidden>

>Finally, I find the name "posix" for this format to
>be quite misleading; some people will think you're referring
>to "ustar" which is also a POSIX format.  The official
>name of this format in the Single Unix Standard is "pax extended."
>For reference, you might take a close look at two other open-source
>archivers that implement this format:  star refers to this format
>as "xustar" (extended ustar) and bsdtar refers to this as "pax".

Star calls the 100% (hopefully ;-) POSIX 2001 format "pax" and the 
extended star format defined on top of the "pax" format "xustar" 
or "exustar"

star H=help
Header types:
        tar     Old tar format
        star    Old star format from 1985
        gnutar  GNU tar format 1989 (violates POSIX)
        ustar   Standard POSIX.1-1988 tar format
        xstar   Extended standard tar (star 1994)
        xustar  'xstar' format without tar signature
        exustar 'xustar' format - always x-header
        pax     Extended POSIX.1-2001 standard tar
        suntar  Sun's extended pre-POSIX.1-2001
        bin     cpio UNIX V7 binary format
        cpio    cpio POSIX.1-1988 format
        odc     cpio POSIX.1-1988 with SYSv compat
        asc     SYSvr4 cpio ascii expanded device #
        crc     'asc' format + CRC

Jörg

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