Re: libpax?

[Joerg Schilling]

>From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wolfgang_J=E4hrling?= <address@hidden>
>> Please keep in mind that it is a bad idea to have a filesystem that is
>> based on buggy code.

>I don't see the difference between a program that happens to be a file
>system and a program that is not a file system.  But of course it is
>always a good idea to not base something on buggy code if one can avoid
>it.

Of course, there is a difference:

-       When you find that there are problems with the compatibility of the
        OS supplied TAR program, you always have the opportunity to get 
        star, compile it and use it instead of the OS supplied variant.

-       If a tar library in a closed application (such as the kernel) failes,
        there is no way to work around the problem. You are bound to the
        specialized code in the clused application.


Jörg

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