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of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
access times.
+* New option --delay-directory-restore delays restoring modification times
+and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction.
+This is necessary for restoring from archives with unusual member
+ordering (in particular, those created with --no-recursion option).
+This option is implied when restoring from incremental archives.
+
* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
options. Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
+* New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar
+quotes member names on output. The --quoting-style takes an argument
+specifying the quoting style to use (literal, shell, shell-always,
+c, escape, locale, clocale). The argument to --quote-chars is a string
+specifying characters to quote, even if the selected quoting style
+would not quote them otherwise. The option --no-quote-chars is
+provided to disable quoting certain characters.
+
* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME. It can alter the
** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
modification times.
+** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
+meta-data cannot be stored in the header due to format limitations
+(for ustar and v7 formats).
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version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
projects / chaz / tar / blobdiff