Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/07/2010 11:10 AM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Lord <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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