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Re: tar "features"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (LaMont Jones)
Mon Sep 28 13:47:20 1998

Date: 	Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:36:03 -0600
Reply-To: LaMont Jones <lamont@CRANSTON.FC.HP.COM>
From: LaMont Jones <lamont@CRANSTON.FC.HP.COM>
X-To:         daia@stoilow.imar.ro
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  Your message of "Sun, 27 Sep 1998 07:00:44 +0300." 
              <19980927070044.249004165@euler.imar.ro>

> On 26 September 1998, Kragen <kragen@DNACO.NET> wrote:
> > Or is ISLNK not portable?
>     Good point, at least HP-UX, ConvexOS and UNIXware don't have
> S_ISLNK.  But you can always do something like

S_ISLNK (and S_IFLNK) is from AES, so HP-UX only defines it when you
say -D_AES_SOURCE or -D_HPUX_SOURCE.

lamont

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