Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:46:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:46:39 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:16649 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:46:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:52:29 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Rob Landley Cc: dcinege@psychosis.com, andersen@codepoet.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. Message-ID: <20021104195229.C1407@almesberger.net> References: <200210272017.56147.landley@trommello.org> <20021030085149.GA7919@codepoet.org> <200210300455.21691.dcinege@psychosis.com> <200211011917.16978.landley@trommello.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211011917.16978.landley@trommello.org>; from landley@trommello.org on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:13:20AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 19 Rob Landley wrote: > Yeah, cpio is a pain and change to use, but so is tar. Somebody who strogly dislikes cpio could just write wrapper accepting tar-style options. Or add a --cpio option to GNU tar, that switches to using the cpio format. One could even try to auto-detect the format when reading :-) - Werner (hates cpio, but not enough) -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/