X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5950259f1f85bef352b2b41a0ca95623efa353d9;hb=e21d54e8cd3d8026ad56f90cc6bde831106c2cb9;hp=32542665ad6084012021af7cd198d6a12598dfb4;hpb=e8e0b6cb7ac0a7a8d1fb4cb954a8bd8158dded02;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3254266..5950259 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,54 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-10 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-28 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +* The --full-time option. + +New command line option `--full-time' instructs tar to output file +time stamps to the full resolution. + +* Bugfixes. + +** Spurious error diagnostics on broken pipe. + +When receiving SIGPIPE, tar would exit with error status and +"write error" diagnostics. In particular, this occurred if +invoked as in the example below: + + tar tf archive.tar | head -n 1 + +** --remove-files + +Tar --remove-files failed to remove a directory which contained +symlinks to another files within that directory. + +** --test-label behavior + +In case of a mismatch, `tar --test-label LABEL' exits with code 1, +not 2 as it did in previous versions. + +The `--verbose' option used with `--test-label' provides additional +diagnostics. + +Several volume labels may be specified in a command line, e.g.: + + tar --test-label -f archive 'My volume' 'New volume' 'Test volume' + +In this case, tar exits with code 0 if any one of the arguments +matches the actual volume label. + +** --label used with --update + +The `--label' option can be used with `--update' to prevent accidental +update of an archive: + + tar -rf archive --label 'My volume' . + +This did not work in previous versions, in spite of what the docs said. + +** Fix dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option. + version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10 @@ -196,10 +244,10 @@ can be changed using `flags=' statement before the expressions, e.g.: ** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files. This is fixed. -** Fixed record size autodetection. If detected record size differs from -the expected value (either default, or set on the command line), tar -always prints a warning if verbosity level is set to 1 or greater, -i.e. if either -t or -v option is given. +** Fixed record size autodetection. If the detected record size differs from +the expected value (either default one, or the one set from the +command line), tar always prints a warning if verbosity level is set +to 1 or greater, i.e. if either -t or -v option is given. @@ -299,7 +347,7 @@ settings. When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x, -t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with -code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message: +code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message: 'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2. * Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'.