X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0d9d6ea8e66648217dde09e2f7b496aa981fa720;hb=a92a8ff22dbdc4c493843903a83e0cb2854fbf6f;hp=b6a39bcdce8237b4a8660444787560b3a5979c11;hpb=aa976a517088ba75fa0168b47803b3988f89c9c3;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b6a39bc..0d9d6ea 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -38,10 +38,27 @@ it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs. +* New option --to-command pipes the contents of archive members to the +specified command. + * New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file access times. +* New option --delay-directory-restore delays restoring modification times +and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction. +This is necessary for restoring from archives with unusual member +ordering (in particular, those created with --no-recursion option). +This option is implied when restoring from incremental archives. + +* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar +options. Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu. + +* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can +get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and +the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME. It can alter the +archive name by writing new name to the file descriptor 3. + * Better support for full-resolution time stamps. Tar cannot restore time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time @@ -62,6 +79,11 @@ was not processed correctly. ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink during reading. ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents. +** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory +modification times. +** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose +meta-data cannot be stored in the header due to format limitations +(for ustar and v7 formats). version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21