X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=0aea69253225098481de571a6f6ef204d2cf481b;hb=849ec5094145dc7c424fbb0967e055291982a5bd;hp=a7343d80a08fa9c3da285401f5c8a952c6b90316;hpb=de5ec134a1d71f6db894d4f96aff014ba9698cb0;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index a7343d8..0aea692 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar. * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux. +* Add support for restoring file time stamps to sub-second resolution, + if the file system supports this. + +* Add support for restoring the attributes of symbolic links, for + OSes like FreeBSD that have the lutimes and lchmod functions. + +* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types. + * Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers, so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and --multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives. @@ -16,9 +24,10 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved. (GNU tar --check-links option) - Perhaps we could announce a phase-in period where "l" changes in semantics. - In the meanwhile we could make the "l" semantics to be determined by the - value of POSIXLY_CORRECT variable. + Currently tar prints a warning when this option is used. Sometime + in the future its semantics will be changed to that of --check-links. + In the meanwhile we should announce a phase-in period where "l" + changes in semantics. * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation. @@ -30,7 +39,7 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff', to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup. -* Add tests for testing the added functonality. +* Add tests for the new functonality. * Consider this: @@ -47,10 +56,10 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html) - + * Copyright notice - Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.