Bug 173087

Summary:	pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Nathan Weeks <nathan.weeks>
Component:	standards	Assignee:	freebsd-standards (Nobody) <standards>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Nathan Weeks 2012-10-25 22:10:00 UTC

pax(1) does not support the pax interchange format. Support is both useful (e.g., to get around the 8GB file size limit of the ustar interchange format) and required for conformance with SUSv3/SUSv4.

Fix: 

Ideally, use libarchive(3); although it would probably be more straightforward to implement the (partial) pax interchange support from Mac OS X pax:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/file_cmds/file_cmds-220.7/pax/pax_format.c
How-To-Repeat: $ pax -x pax
pax: Unknown -x format: pax
pax: Known -x formats are: bcpio cpio sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar
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Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 07:59:33 UTC

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Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

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