From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:37:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Installation failure caused by CDPATH environment variable
Message-ID: <7vhco2ancg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070717114024.GA12215@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> We could write it as "$(TAR) Ccf blt - ." if we can rely on the
>> 'C' option, but I suspect it is a GNU extension.  Does anybody
>> have POSIX.1 handy?
> I don't have POSIX.1 handy, but on Solaris 10, you need to say:
>
> 	tar cf - -C blt .
>
> (That is, Solaris' tar has the 'C' option, which is quite a good
> indication, that it's included in POSIX :-)

Oh, I cannot resist ;-)

Solaris has unlink(2) capable of removing a directory, but I do
not think it is included in POSIX.