>  But the tar people don't want to hear it, their attitude is to fix the os
>  instead, I've exchanged emails with them in 2 flurries now.  They are
>  congentially incapable of understanding the problem I believe.

Jean-Louis posted a patch there recently to fix the NFS detection,
which goes halfway to fixing the problem, and proposed a complete fix.

I think we should start a letter-writing campaign in support of his
patch: everyone who's been following this issue, please head over to
bug-tar and make some noise.

http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar -- subscribe
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2008-03/msg00023.html --
Jean-Louis' patch post
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar AT gnu DOT org/msg01767.html -- Jordan
Desroche's post

google can help you find some more posts.

Dustin

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