X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=inline;f=NEWS;h=ae80441605b1dcd939198920c1d40ac25dcc2773;hb=0fb3020da0b2c3c6a15b3785f3900cbcf444c2ff;hp=db7cae24157e29efde1d0802ffd6b8e9638cb29c;hpb=d7db30d0e80997b15cd3c976f612b08d95d091e9;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index db7cae2..ae80441 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ 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 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.