Re: Linux 2.6.12

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jun 18 2005 - 13:10:57 EST




On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:05:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > Because it's extracted as a regular file (instead of tar knowing that it's
> > > a comment header), you will now have a file called "pax_global_header"
> > > that has the contents
> >
> > I guess it will end up in dontdiff quickly :-)
> >
> If Linus accepts the patch below, then yes :-)

Actually, I won't.

As far as I know, the "pax_global_header" file doesn't get added to inside
the Linux directory, it gets added to the "top" directory, ie one
directory up from the Linux directory. As such, this should all be
unnecessary.

Linus
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