X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=95532bd0bf889bf9a8cc2f7f1d0957b995e9f308;hb=075c726752d3a57b862a0d74ca6dfb7f4ea10c98;hp=5c83c97d21b13ff2d3f26dbfdb4d8f4fe3ec3989;hpb=2e7a943d0ea47fd679469f20409a7c6673993522;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5c83c97..95532bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -38,10 +38,21 @@ 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 --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