- l GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries.
- UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved.
- (GNU tar --check-links option)
-
- Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics.
- In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the
- value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable.
+* Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
+ This would unify paxutils with tar.