Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jul 2001 23:31:08 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Reading a tarball is the distillation of what you describe into > > efficient form :) > > /me downloads tar file definition > > Um, gnu tar or posix tar? or some new, improved tar?
I suggest cpio, which is more compact and in some ways more standard. (tar has a silly pad-to-multiple-of-512-byte per file rule, which is inappropriate for this). GNU cpio creates cpio format just fine.
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