| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:10:16 +0200 |
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 06:43:42PM -0400, Chris Beggy wrote: > Linus started trying to re-create Minix, not Unix. From tiny > acorns, mighty oaks grow. To hear him tell it, he started because he wanted his computer to be more useful and wanted to play around with OS stuff. He was obviously influenced by Minix, but so was anyone else learning OS stuff at the time. (Your text book choices were pretty much Tanenbaum's text, attached to Minix, or McKusick's "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System". Trust me, it's easier to learn from Tanenbaum. I like McKusick a lot, but his book isn't what you want to throw at a CS undergrad, nor was it intended as such.) > Could you please whip up that new tar, when you have a chance? > I'd like to see command line switches for encryption, and a > command line switch for running in tar-1.12 compatibility mode so > amanda won't choke on it. A hook for encryption would be really nice. (And not just "callout to GnuPG"; using libssl would rock too.) Oh, and saying "tar format" is enough for "tar-1.12 compatibility mode". The format modern tar(1)s (not just GNU's, commercial Unix vendors too, though to varying degrees) speak is USTAR. And there's already something that does that: pax(1). I'll betcha Debian's got a package. > Oh, and write .po files in thirteen languages and port it to: That part's easy. Write POSIX/SuS (both aren't hard) compliant code, and you get portability for free. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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