linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7

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Message-ID: <4B6F84AA.70402@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:27:38 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	James Cloos <cloos@...loos.com>
CC:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7

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

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