From b68057816b2f880a8bd2e9747a9b75d60f7e1a4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:59:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated --- NEWS | 12 ++++++++++++ TODO | 24 +++++------------------- doc/tar.texi | 9 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a721793..36926e8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ version 1.13.26 * Bug fixes. +* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it +does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible +with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of +--old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed +in future. + +* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped +for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option. +The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility +with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as +the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. + version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26 * Bug fixes. diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index bf1e517..ba1666e 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -11,29 +11,15 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. This would unify paxutils with tar. * Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar - as specified by UNIX98. The main problems are: + as specified by UNIX98. The main problem is: l GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries. UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved. - (GNU tar has no similar option.) + (GNU tar --check-links option) - o GNU tar says output old format. - UNIX98 tar says don't chown files after extracting - (GNU tar uses "--no-same-owner" for this). - - Many people rely on GNU tar's "l" and "o" so we can't abruptly change - GNU tar to be compatible with UNIX98 tar. - - However, "o" is relatively easy: we can extend GNU tar so that "o" is - a synonym for --no-same-owner when extracting, keeping "o"'s current - semantics when creating. This is a bit of a hack, but it shouldn't - break things. - - "l" will be harder, since it's a clear incompatibility. Perhaps we - could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics. - However, the first step should be to support the UNIX98 semantics, - using a long option, without changing the meaning of "l" for now. That - will give people a migration strategy. + 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. * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation. diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index 726661a..e27f5fc 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ @set xref-checkpoint @xref{verbose} @set pxref-checkpoint @pxref{verbose} +@set op-check-links @kbd{--check-links} + @set op-compare @kbd{--compare} (@kbd{--diff}, @kbd{-d}) @set ref-compare @ref{compare} @set xref-compare @xref{compare} @@ -2566,6 +2568,13 @@ reads through the archive. Its intended for when you want a visual indication that @command{tar} is still running, but don't want to see @samp{--verbose} output. @FIXME-xref{} +@item --check-links + +If this option was given, @command{tar} will check the number of links +dumped for each processed file. If this number does not match the +total number of hard links for the file, a warning message will be +output. + @item --compress @itemx --uncompress @itemx -Z -- 2.45.2