-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-09-12
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-09-13
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Tar now checks for inconsistencies caused when a file system is
modified while tar is creating an archive. In the new approach, tar
maintains a cache of file descriptors to directories, so it uses more
-file descriptors before, but it gracefully adjusts to system limits on
+file descriptors than before, but it adjusts to system limits on
the number of file descriptors. The new checks are implemented via
-the openat, dirfd, fdopendir, fstatat, and readlinkat calls
+the openat, fdopendir, fstatat, and readlinkat calls
standardized by POSIX.1-2008. On an older system where these calls do
not exist or do not return useful results, tar emulates the calls at
some cost in efficiency and reliability.