Re: [rtems-users] Re: tar filesystem

["D. Peter Siddons" <siddons at bnl dot gov>]

It has been on my to-do list to use this feature for some time, for a 
similar application to Eric's. Since the calls are documented in the 
manuals I had assumed they existed! Naive, I suppose...
Pete.


Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:41 -0600, Joel Sherrill  wrote:
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> > FYI .. this was sent to rtems-users@OARcorp.com not rtems.com.  They
> > are separate domains and machines now. :)
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> > Eric Norum wrote:
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> > > Why is cpukit/libfs/src/imfs/imfs_load_tar.c no longer being built?  It 
> > > looks like just the thing I need for my standalone EPICS IOC.
> > >      
> > My guess is probably just an accidental oversight in some Makefile.am
> > updates.
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> Probably, I don't know. Digging CVS-history shows it had been disabled a
> very long time ago, and nobody seems to have missed it :(
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> >  The 4.7 tree uses a lot fewer Makefile.am's and something
> > might have been missed.
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> > From what I see it also could be some unfinished work, because it shares
> a lot of code with libmisc/untar (Definitely something to be worth
> looking after).
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> Ralf
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