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 Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 
 Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 

+* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de>
+

 * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
 
 * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
 

-* Fix tar so that it can read and write POSIX.1-1990 tar archives.
+* 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.

 
 

-* Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives
-  (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001).
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.

 
 * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
   This would unify paxutils with tar.
 
 
 * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
   This would unify paxutils with tar.
 

-* Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar
-  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 --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.
-

 * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
 
 * Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.
 * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
 
 * Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.


@@ -31,15 +25,33 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
   It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
   to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
 
   It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
   to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
 

+* Add tests for the new functonality.
+
+* Consider this:
+
+  From: Dennis Pund
+  Subject: TAR suggestion...
+  Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
+
+  What I would like to do is:
+
+  foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
+
+  where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
+  to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
+
+  (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
+
+\f

 * Copyright notice
 
 * Copyright notice
 

-  Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
   This file is part of GNU tar.
 
   GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 
   This file is part of GNU tar.
 
   GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)

   any later version.
 
   GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   any later version.
 
   GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,


@@ -49,8 +61,8 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 
   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
 
   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to

-  the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-  Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+  the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+  Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

 
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