Document --to-command and --info-script options. Add missing xrefs.

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
 prefixes removed.  The option is useful, for example, while comparing
 `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
 
+* New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature
+of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
+access times.
+
 * Better support for full-resolution time stamps.  Tar cannot restore
 time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
 guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time
@@ -58,6 +62,8 @@ was not processed correctly.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.
 ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
+** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
+modification times.
 
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 version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21