Minor fix.

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-08-08
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-10-07
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is
 reported only if the archive is read from a device (as opposed
 to regular files and pipes).
 
+* Seekable archives
+
+When a read-only operation (e.g. --list or --extract) is requested
+on a regular file, tar attemtps to speed up accesses by using lseek.
+
 * New command line option `--warning'
 
 The `--warning' command line option allows to suppress or enable
@@ -31,11 +36,60 @@ options.  So far the only meaningful value for N is 0.  The
 `--level=0' option forces creating the level 0 dump, by truncating
 the snapshot file if it exists.
 
+* Files removed during incremental dumps
+
+If a file or directory is removed while incremental dump is
+in progress, tar exact actions depend on whether this file
+was explicitly listed in the command line, or was gathered
+during file system scan.
+
+If the file was explicitly listed in the command line, tar
+issues error message and exits with the code 2, meaning
+fatal error.
+
+Otherwise, if the file was gathered during the file system
+scan, tar issues a warning, saying "File removed before we read it",
+and sets the exit code to 1, which means "some files differ".
+If the --warning=no-file-removed option is given, no warning
+is issued and the exit code remains 0.
+
+* Modification times of PAX extended headers.
+
+Modification times in the ustar header blocks for the 
+extended headers are set to the mtimes of the corresponding archive
+members.  This can be overridden by the
+
+  --pax-opion='exthdr.mtime=STRING'
+
+command line option.  The STRING is either the number of seconds since
+the Epoch or a `Time reference' (see below).
+
+Modification times in the ustar header blocks for the global
+extended headers are set to the time when tar was invoked.
+
+This can be overridden by the
+
+  --pax-opion='globexthdr.mtime=STRING'
+
+command line option.  The STRING is either the number of seconds since
+the Epoch or a `Time reference' (see below).
+
+* Time references in --pax-option argument.
+
+Any value from the --pax-option argument that is enclosed in a pair
+of curly braces.  In that case, the string between the braces is
+understood either as a textual time representation, as described in
+chapter 7, "Date input formats", of the Tar manual, or as a name of
+the existing file, starting with `/' or `.'.  In the latter
+case, the value is replaced with the modification time of that file.
+
 * Bugfixes
 ** Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform.
 ** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files.
 ** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199).
 ** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories.
+** The --remove-files option removes the files only if they were
+succesfully stored in the archive.
 
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 version 1.22 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009-03-05