Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757826Ab0BHDb2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:31:28 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35155 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752988Ab0BHDb0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:31:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4B6F84AA.70402@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:27:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Cloos CC: Mark Lord , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 References: <4B6E4793.3010201@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 27 On 02/07/2010 11:10 AM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord writes: > > Mark> I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j > Mark> into a single flag. > > Try the -a flag: > > -a, --auto-compress use archive suffix to determine the compression program > > (Which does seem to be on by default, now, as mentioned in the other reply.) > For decompression it should use magic numbers, not filenames. For compression, using filenames as a heuristic I guess makes sense. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/