Re: [Bug-tar] feature request: access to archive members by applications like grep, md5sum, ...

[Hansjoerg Lipp]

Hi!

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:49:28PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> It is a very interesting idea. Please allow me a couple of days to
> evaluate it (my schedule has become rather tough recently).

No sweat! I'm glad to hear that the idea is not totally braindead :-)

> > Do you have any suggestions?
> 
> Currently only one: avoid using static buffers (stat_to_env), and
> unnecessary memory reallocations (setup_env). Using obstack will
> simplify both functions.

Yes, I'll have a look at this tomorrow (I hope).

Thanks for the quick response,

Hansjoerg