X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ab057ecc86a52dfd719bd192ca2c0058e9b4d0a8;hb=d659cbaccdc1f3279c49107cf15f15a639738529;hp=e13e44aee9fd1be7e2c03f9aca9af6a1047bb08e;hpb=f6445e4ed68362950e8c83b60eed09871982fbe1;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e13e44a..ab057ec 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ automatically. It is not necessary to give --null option. is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'. An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well. +* 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 +stamps to nanosecond resolution. + +* The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution, +not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns. +Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much. + * Bugfixes ** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options.