[illumos-Developer] Closed-bin accords of the OpenSolaris conference... / was: Re: illumos_145 i386 build status

[Garrett D'Amore]

Of course... if I find a bug in either star or AST pax, I will let the
upstream know.  I will however perform my own tests and comparisons
between the programs to make my own determination about the
implementations.

That said, if there are *specific* tests that I should perform, then I
would like detailed information (out of band please).

I will be comparing behavior with existing Sun tar/cpio/pax as part of
my baseline effort.

I probably won't get to this right away.. frankly the closed source
archiver is far less critical than other components, as it is not
required to actually build the source.

	- Garrett

On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 22:44 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> 
> > The question of "pax" from star vs. AST is an open issue.  Each team has
> > said that the other's implementation is defective.  I frankly am not
> > interested in getting into a flamewar about this, and that is where the
> > current conversations seem headed.
> 
> Garret, I know of not a single issue with star. We at BerliOS use star for
> backup purposes on a dayly base since more than 5 years. If you know about a
> bug in star, please report so I can implement a fix. Other users of star
> (like e.g. Strato - Germanys biggest Web Hoster) would certainly also like to 
> know whether there is a bug in star.
> 
> Jörg
>