site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcY/5t45HNzSuKvaEdq41gAKlbpFBg== Thread-topic: Why no work on rsync? User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 On 3/4/06 6:13 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Mar 4, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Boyd Waters wrote:
Hmm. Actually you are correct: no standard tools support these various approaches. Filesystem architects have long grappled with this stuff, but no one has made user-space work well.
And, just for the record, I'm not arguing that we did either.
On this tangent, whenever I do "make dist" to build a Perl module, it creates ._ files and sticks them in the tar archive. (This is on an HFS+ disk.) They're not there before the tar because I delete them all prior to the tar step. On another, seemingly identical machine (same version of everything, same Perl source synced form SVN) it *doesn't* do this when I "make dist." And it's not tar itself that's doing it because if I use gnutar the same thing happens on the one machine (but again, not on the other). Mysterious. Anyway, I'm glad you guys are trying to make it work. Someone should :)
It's all just a bit messy, which is probably why nobody's even wanted to touch user space. They just do the filesystem support, declare victory and run away. :-)
Wimps! (...like the Spotlight guys not using EAs...for shame! ;) -John _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com