From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:07:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention sub-second resolution, lutimes, lchmod. X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=849ec5094145dc7c424fbb0967e055291982a5bd;p=chaz%2Ftar Mention sub-second resolution, lutimes, lchmod. --- diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 22962d2..0aea692 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux. +* Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution, + if the file system supports this. + +* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for + OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions. + * --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types. * Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers, @@ -21,7 +27,7 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and Currently tar prints a warning when this option is used. Sometime in the future its semantics will be changed to that of --check-links. In the meanwhile we should announce a phase-in period where "l" - changes in semantics. + changes in semantics. * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation. @@ -50,7 +56,7 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html) - + * Copyright notice Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.