1 /* GNU tar Archive Format description.
3 Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
4 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
7 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
8 Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
12 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
14 Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
17 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
18 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
20 /* tar Header Block, from POSIX 1003.1-1990. */
26 char name
[100]; /* 0 */
27 char mode
[8]; /* 100 */
28 char uid
[8]; /* 108 */
29 char gid
[8]; /* 116 */
30 char size
[12]; /* 124 */
31 char mtime
[12]; /* 136 */
32 char chksum
[8]; /* 148 */
33 char typeflag
; /* 156 */
34 char linkname
[100]; /* 157 */
35 char magic
[6]; /* 257 */
36 char version
[2]; /* 263 */
37 char uname
[32]; /* 265 */
38 char gname
[32]; /* 297 */
39 char devmajor
[8]; /* 329 */
40 char devminor
[8]; /* 337 */
41 char prefix
[155]; /* 345 */
45 #define TMAGIC "ustar" /* ustar and a null */
47 #define TVERSION "00" /* 00 and no null */
50 /* Values used in typeflag field. */
51 #define REGTYPE '0' /* regular file */
52 #define AREGTYPE '\0' /* regular file */
53 #define LNKTYPE '1' /* link */
54 #define SYMTYPE '2' /* reserved */
55 #define CHRTYPE '3' /* character special */
56 #define BLKTYPE '4' /* block special */
57 #define DIRTYPE '5' /* directory */
58 #define FIFOTYPE '6' /* FIFO special */
59 #define CONTTYPE '7' /* reserved */
61 #define XHDTYPE 'x' /* Extended header referring to the
62 next file in the archive */
63 #define XGLTYPE 'g' /* Global extended header */
65 /* Bits used in the mode field, values in octal. */
66 #define TSUID 04000 /* set UID on execution */
67 #define TSGID 02000 /* set GID on execution */
68 #define TSVTX 01000 /* reserved */
69 /* file permissions */
70 #define TUREAD 00400 /* read by owner */
71 #define TUWRITE 00200 /* write by owner */
72 #define TUEXEC 00100 /* execute/search by owner */
73 #define TGREAD 00040 /* read by group */
74 #define TGWRITE 00020 /* write by group */
75 #define TGEXEC 00010 /* execute/search by group */
76 #define TOREAD 00004 /* read by other */
77 #define TOWRITE 00002 /* write by other */
78 #define TOEXEC 00001 /* execute/search by other */
80 /* tar Header Block, GNU extensions. */
82 /* In GNU tar, SYMTYPE is for to symbolic links, and CONTTYPE is for
83 contiguous files, so maybe disobeying the `reserved' comment in POSIX
84 header description. I suspect these were meant to be used this way, and
85 should not have really been `reserved' in the published standards. */
87 /* *BEWARE* *BEWARE* *BEWARE* that the following information is still
88 boiling, and may change. Even if the OLDGNU format description should be
89 accurate, the so-called GNU format is not yet fully decided. It is
90 surely meant to use only extensions allowed by POSIX, but the sketch
91 below repeats some ugliness from the OLDGNU format, which should rather
92 go away. Sparse files should be saved in such a way that they do *not*
93 require two passes at archive creation time. Huge files get some POSIX
94 fields to overflow, alternate solutions have to be sought for this. */
96 /* Descriptor for a single file hole. */
100 char offset
[12]; /* 0 */
101 char numbytes
[12]; /* 12 */
105 /* Sparse files are not supported in POSIX ustar format. For sparse files
106 with a POSIX header, a GNU extra header is provided which holds overall
107 sparse information and a few sparse descriptors. When an old GNU header
108 replaces both the POSIX header and the GNU extra header, it holds some
109 sparse descriptors too. Whether POSIX or not, if more sparse descriptors
110 are still needed, they are put into as many successive sparse headers as
111 necessary. The following constants tell how many sparse descriptors fit
112 in each kind of header able to hold them. */
114 #define SPARSES_IN_EXTRA_HEADER 16
115 #define SPARSES_IN_OLDGNU_HEADER 4
116 #define SPARSES_IN_SPARSE_HEADER 21
118 /* Extension header for sparse files, used immediately after the GNU extra
119 header, and used only if all sparse information cannot fit into that
120 extra header. There might even be many such extension headers, one after
121 the other, until all sparse information has been recorded. */
125 struct sparse sp
[SPARSES_IN_SPARSE_HEADER
];
127 char isextended
; /* 504 */
131 /* The old GNU format header conflicts with POSIX format in such a way that
132 POSIX archives may fool old GNU tar's, and POSIX tar's might well be
133 fooled by old GNU tar archives. An old GNU format header uses the space
134 used by the prefix field in a POSIX header, and cumulates information
135 normally found in a GNU extra header. With an old GNU tar header, we
136 never see any POSIX header nor GNU extra header. Supplementary sparse
137 headers are allowed, however. */
141 char unused_pad1
[345]; /* 0 */
142 char atime
[12]; /* 345 Incr. archive: atime of the file */
143 char ctime
[12]; /* 357 Incr. archive: ctime of the file */
144 char offset
[12]; /* 369 Multivolume archive: the offset of
145 the start of this volume */
146 char longnames
[4]; /* 381 Not used */
147 char unused_pad2
; /* 385 */
148 struct sparse sp
[SPARSES_IN_OLDGNU_HEADER
];
150 char isextended
; /* 482 Sparse file: Extension sparse header
152 char realsize
[12]; /* 483 Sparse file: Real size*/
156 /* OLDGNU_MAGIC uses both magic and version fields, which are contiguous.
157 Found in an archive, it indicates an old GNU header format, which will be
158 hopefully become obsolescent. With OLDGNU_MAGIC, uname and gname are
159 valid, though the header is not truly POSIX conforming. */
160 #define OLDGNU_MAGIC "ustar " /* 7 chars and a null */
162 /* The standards committee allows only capital A through capital Z for
163 user-defined expansion. Other letters in use include:
165 'A' Solaris Access Control List
166 'E' Solaris Extended Attribute File
167 'I' Inode only, as in 'star'
168 'X' POSIX 1003.1-2001 eXtended (VU version) */
170 /* This is a dir entry that contains the names of files that were in the
171 dir at the time the dump was made. */
172 #define GNUTYPE_DUMPDIR 'D'
174 /* Identifies the *next* file on the tape as having a long linkname. */
175 #define GNUTYPE_LONGLINK 'K'
177 /* Identifies the *next* file on the tape as having a long name. */
178 #define GNUTYPE_LONGNAME 'L'
180 /* This is the continuation of a file that began on another volume. */
181 #define GNUTYPE_MULTIVOL 'M'
183 /* For storing filenames that do not fit into the main header. */
184 #define GNUTYPE_NAMES 'N'
186 /* This is for sparse files. */
187 #define GNUTYPE_SPARSE 'S'
189 /* This file is a tape/volume header. Ignore it on extraction. */
190 #define GNUTYPE_VOLHDR 'V'
193 /* Jörg Schilling star header */
197 char name
[100]; /* 0 */
198 char mode
[8]; /* 100 */
199 char uid
[8]; /* 108 */
200 char gid
[8]; /* 116 */
201 char size
[12]; /* 124 */
202 char mtime
[12]; /* 136 */
203 char chksum
[8]; /* 148 */
204 char typeflag
; /* 156 */
205 char linkname
[100]; /* 157 */
206 char magic
[6]; /* 257 */
207 char version
[2]; /* 263 */
208 char uname
[32]; /* 265 */
209 char gname
[32]; /* 297 */
210 char devmajor
[8]; /* 329 */
211 char devminor
[8]; /* 337 */
212 char prefix
[131]; /* 345 */
213 char atime
[12]; /* 476 */
214 char ctime
[12]; /* 488 */
218 #define SPARSES_IN_STAR_HEADER 4
219 #define SPARSES_IN_STAR_EXT_HEADER 21
221 struct star_in_header
{
222 char fill
[345]; /* 0 Everything that is before t_prefix */
223 char prefix
[1]; /* 345 t_name prefix */
224 char fill2
; /* 346 */
225 char fill3
[8]; /* 347 */
226 char isextended
; /* 355 */
227 struct sparse sp
[SPARSES_IN_STAR_HEADER
]; /* 356 */
228 char realsize
[12]; /* 452 Actual size of the file */
229 char offset
[12]; /* 464 Offset of multivolume contents */
230 char atime
[12]; /* 476 */
231 char ctime
[12]; /* 488 */
232 char mfill
[8]; /* 500 */
233 char xmagic
[4]; /* 508 "tar" */
236 struct star_ext_header
{
237 struct sparse sp
[SPARSES_IN_STAR_EXT_HEADER
];
243 /* tar Header Block, overall structure. */
245 /* tar files are made in basic blocks of this size. */
246 #define BLOCKSIZE 512
250 DEFAULT_FORMAT
, /* format to be decided later */
251 V7_FORMAT
, /* old V7 tar format */
252 OLDGNU_FORMAT
, /* GNU format as per before tar 1.12 */
253 USTAR_FORMAT
, /* POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) format */
254 POSIX_FORMAT
, /* POSIX.1-2001 format */
255 STAR_FORMAT
, /* Star format defined in 1994 */
256 GNU_FORMAT
/* Same as OLDGNU_FORMAT with one exception:
257 see FIXME note for to_chars() function
261 /* Information about a sparse file. */
270 char *orig_file_name
; /* name of file read from the archive header */
271 char *file_name
; /* name of file for the current archive entry
272 after being normalized. */
273 int had_trailing_slash
; /* nonzero if the current archive entry had a
274 trailing slash before it was normalized. */
275 char *link_name
; /* name of link for the current archive entry. */
277 unsigned int devminor
; /* device minor number */
278 unsigned int devmajor
; /* device major number */
279 char *uname
; /* user name of owner */
280 char *gname
; /* group name of owner */
281 struct stat stat
; /* regular filesystem stat */
283 /* Nanosecond parts of file timestamps (if available) */
284 unsigned long atime_nsec
;
285 unsigned long mtime_nsec
;
286 unsigned long ctime_nsec
;
288 off_t archive_file_size
; /* Size of file as stored in the archive.
289 Equals stat.st_size for non-sparse files */
291 size_t sparse_map_avail
; /* Index to the first unused element in
292 sparse_map array. Zero if the file is
294 size_t sparse_map_size
; /* Size of the sparse map */
295 struct sp_array
*sparse_map
;
300 char buffer
[BLOCKSIZE
];
301 struct posix_header header
;
302 struct star_header star_header
;
303 struct oldgnu_header oldgnu_header
;
304 struct sparse_header sparse_header
;
305 struct star_in_header star_in_header
;
306 struct star_ext_header star_ext_header
;
309 /* End of Format description. */