Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
+* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de>
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* Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
-* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
+* Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution,
+ if the file system supports this.
-* Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
-so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and
---multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
+* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for
+ OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions.
+
+* --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.
-* 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.
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 testing the added functonality.
+* Add tests for the new functonality.
* Consider this:
(http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
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- Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
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