* Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode. Previous versions padded
sparse members with spurious zero blocks.
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+
* Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental. Version 1.16.1 produced
a full dump when both options were given.
-* Fix --occurence. In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
+* Fix --occurrence. In previous versions it continued scanning the archive
even though all requested members has already been extracted.
* Scope of --transform and --strip-components options.
In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform
option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components
-option affects hard link targets as well.
+option affects hard link targets as well.
* End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing
it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'.
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+
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version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09
-* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
- files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not
+* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
+ files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not
be archived.
* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded
directory contents only, while the directories themselves were
- still added to the archive.
+ still added to the archive.
* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.
files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
-\f
+\f
version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
* After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were