X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=d6ddd433dbccb1e331bee230ae4416295b9dce44;hb=aa976a517088ba75fa0168b47803b3988f89c9c3;hp=385fa9487e40e2f5761bf507cb2bde9ac5dcecb8;hpb=7b00db5675864768f56636b4c329635cf05123f1;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 385fa94..d6ddd43 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,61 @@ +2005-11-29 Paul Eggert + + * NEWS: New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses O_NOATIME. + + * configure.ac: Prefer AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE to AC_CHECK_HEADERS. + Check for stropts.h and sys/filio.h too, for _FIOSATIME. + * doc/tar.texi: Change "modification time" to "data modification + time", "change time" to "status change time", and "filesystem" to + "file system", so that we use terminology consistent with POSIX. + Use American spacing rather than French for sentence ends. + "non-dependable" -> "undependable". + (Option Summary, Attributes): Explain better the pitfalls of the + --atime-preserve option, and suggest read-only mounts,loopback + mounts, and noatime mounts for older systems. + * doc/value.texi (op-atime-preserve-system): Renamed from + op-atime-preserver-system to fix a misspelling. + * src/common.h (enum atime_preserve): Use lower case for enum values. + * src/compare.c: Don't include utimens.h; no longer needed. + (diff_file): Use set_file_atime rather than utimens; avoid closing + diff_handle until after this, so that we can set the file time stamp + via the file descriptor rather than via its name. + * src/create.c: Don't include utimens.h; no longer needed. + (dump_regular_finish): Remove. All callers now do its work inline. + (dump_dir): New arg FD. All callers changed. + Use fdsavedir rather than savedir. + (unknown_file_error): Arg is a const pointer now. + (dump_file0): 2nd arg is a const pointer now. + Treat directories more like files, with respect to --atime-preserve. + For example, also warn if a directory changes while we are dumping it. + Prefer file descriptors to file names when retrieving/setting file + attributes; this saves path-resolution time and allows us to avoid + changing mtime/ctime on Solaris when restoring atime as root. + Use O_DIRECTORY when opening directories, to avoid some race conditions. + Do not reset atime if mtime has changed. Report an error if + we cannot reset atime. + +2005-11-29 Ian Turner + + First cut at adding support for --atime-preserve=system. + * doc/tar.texi (Option Summary): First cut at documenting it. + All other uses of --atime-preserve changed to --atime-preserve=replace. + * doc/value.texi (op-atime-preserve-replace, op-atime-preserver-system): + New. + (op-atime-preserve): Mention METHOD. + * src/common.h (atime_preserve): New enum. + (atime_preserve_option): Now of the enum type rather than bool. + All uses changed. + * src/compare.c (diff_file): Read with O_NOATIME if asked for. + * src/create.c (dump_file0): Read regular and CTG files with O_NOATIME + if asked for. + * src/tar.c (usage): Mention new usage. + (parse_opt): Parse new usage. + +2005-11-29 Paul Eggert + + * THANKS: Convert back to UTF-8, sort (using LC_ALL=C on Debian + stable), and consistently use tabs rather than spaces. + 2005-11-27 Sergey Poznyakoff * src/xheader.c: Remove parts of code prematurely introduced @@ -23,7 +81,7 @@ tests/star/multi-fail.at: Close stdin so that if something fails causing tar to ask for the next volume, it won't hang the testsuite. - + * src/buffer.c (flush_write,flush_read): Change data type. (flush_archive): Compute actual buffer fill level before calling low level function. @@ -45,22 +103,22 @@ Correct buffer size calculation (allocated too much space). (xheader_write): Increase global_header_count here ... (xheader_write_global): ... instead of here - + * tests/testsuite.at (AT_TAR_CHECK): Define TEST_TAR_FORMAT * tests/multiv01.at: Update * tests/multiv02.at: Update * tests/multiv03.at: Update * tests/sparsemvp.at: Update * tests/star/multi-fail.at: Update - + * scripts/tarcat: Handle archives in pax format. Improve handling of traditional archives. * doc/tar.texi (Tarcat): New node - + 2005-11-10 Sergey Poznyakoff Fix splitting of sparse files between the volumes. - + * src/buffer.c (try_new_volume): Bugfix. Always check continued_file_name. If it is absent, the volume is out of sync. @@ -86,13 +144,13 @@ on the extended header boundary) are still not solved, others (splitting a sparse file between the volume) require additional testing. Wait for the next commit. - + (volume_label,continued_file_name,continued_file_size) (continued_file_offset): New globals. (save_name,save_totsize,save_sizeleft): Make static (mv_begin,mv_end,mv_total_size,mv_size_left): New functions (open_archive,flush_write,flush_read): Rewritten - + * src/common.h (save_name,save_sizeleft,save_totsize): Remove globals. (volume_label,continued_file_name,continued_file_size): New @@ -122,7 +180,19 @@ of related tests in groups. * doc/tar.texi: Update - + +2005-11-07 Paul Eggert + + * src/xheader.c (struct xhdr_tab.coder): Last arg is void const *, + not void *, to avoid create.c warning from GCC "passing argument 3 + of 'xheader_store' discards qualifiers from pointer target type". + (dummy_coder, atime_coder, gid_coder, gname_coder, linkpath_coder): + (ctime_coder, mtime_coder, path_coder, size_coder, uid_coder): + (uname_coder, sparse_size_coder, sparse_numblocks_coder): + (sparse_offset_coder, sparse_numbytes_coder, dumpdir_coder): + (xheader_store): Likewise. + * src/common.h (xheader_store): Likewise. + 2005-11-07 Sergey Poznyakoff and Paul Eggert @@ -188,6 +258,13 @@ 2005-11-06 Paul Eggert + * NEWS: Minor language and white space fixes. + + * tests/truncate.at: Create files whose time stamps must fall on + 1-second boundaries. This prevents tests from failing on hosts + like Solaris 8 that have nanosecond-resolution file time stamps. + * tests/update.at: Likewise. + * src/xheader.c (strtoimax, strtoumax): Remove decls; now done in system.h.