[rtems-users] Re: tar filesystem

[D. Peter Siddons]

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 at 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.
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>>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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