Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 7 Jul 2001 23:31:08 +0200

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Reading a tarball is the distillation of what you describe into
> > efficient form :)
>
> /me downloads tar file definition
>
> Um, gnu tar or posix tar? or some new, improved tar?

I suggest cpio, which is more compact and in some ways more standard.
(tar has a silly pad-to-multiple-of-512-byte per file rule, which is
inappropriate for this). GNU cpio creates cpio format just fine.

-- Jamie
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