hfstar / POSIX

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bluehz

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I am playing around a little with the hacked tar called "hfstar" to implement a backup strategy. I noticed in the hfstar help it indicates:

GNU tar cannot read nor produce `--posix' archives. If POSIXLY_CORRECT
is set in the environment, GNU extensions are disallowed with `--posix'.
Support for POSIX is only partially implemented, don't count on it yet.
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I have a vague understanding of POSIX - but don't really know what it is. Can someone give me a brief description of POSIX and how it affects me and my backups?
 
POSIX are just a set of standards. Some of them are good, some of them are crap. I especially hate POSIX file paths, but that's just me.

I wouldn't worry about it. HFS+ isn't POSIX anyway since it defines file attributes POSIX does not, and also doesn't allow two files to be in the same directory if their filename only differs by case. POSIX standards say that two files which only differ by case can co-exist. for example:

filename
FILENAME
FiLeName
fileNAME
FILEname

would all be allowed inthe same directory. Human-friendly? no, but that's UNIX for you.
 
thnx strobe - thats a definition I can get my head around....now I understand

BTW - great icon - haven't seen those in years.
 
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