X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=f5ca51baa80d6d521328581d22c38345e59d2d41;hb=89e65f936dabe759bf9483e20ae512f37ca81912;hp=9492ebc8703049d9becd05af0ffe2c8eb5bf0184;hpb=3cb52ac16a29639527d9990d72e480e38caf00fa;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 9492ebc..f5ca51b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ 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, @@ -18,10 +24,10 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and UNIX98 tar warns if all links cannot be resolved. (GNU tar --check-links option) - Currently tar prints a warning when this option is used. Somewhere + 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. + changes in semantics. * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation. @@ -33,7 +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: @@ -50,7 +56,7 @@ 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, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -69,8 +75,8 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--incremental, --label and You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to - the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, - Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. + the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, + Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Local variables: