From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:27:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6F84AA.70402@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k4uo275s.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>
On 02/07/2010 11:10 AM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com> writes:
>
> Mark> I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j
> Mark> into a single flag.
>
> Try the -a flag:
>
> -a, --auto-compress use archive suffix to determine the compression program
>
> (Which does seem to be on by default, now, as mentioned in the other reply.)
>
For decompression it should use magic numbers, not filenames. For
compression, using filenames as a heuristic I guess makes sense.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-08 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-06 22:44 Linux 2.6.33-rc7 Linus Torvalds
2010-02-06 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-06 23:00 ` John Kacur
2010-02-06 23:06 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-02-07 4:54 ` Mark Lord
2010-02-07 4:58 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-02-07 5:11 ` Mark Lord
2010-02-07 5:09 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-02-07 10:39 ` John Feuerstein
2010-02-07 19:10 ` James Cloos
2010-02-08 3:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-02-07 10:20 ` Joel Becker
2010-02-07 10:43 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-02-07 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-07 18:39 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-08 18:28 ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-08 21:49 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-02-10 8:14 ` Pavel Machek
2010-02-08 3:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-09 11:30 ` Pádraig Brady
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