* src/names.c (file_list_name): Properly prototype.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-01-01
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-02-10
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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 version 1.26.90 (Git)
 
+* Bug fixes
+
+** Sparse files with large data
+
+When creating a PAX-format archive, tar no longer arbitrarily restricts
+the size of the representation of a sparse file to be less than 8 GiB.
+
 * Quoting
 
 In the default C locale, diagnostics and output of 'tar' have been
@@ -43,6 +50,24 @@ Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow
 you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the
 extended attributes.
 
+* Passing command line arguments to external commands.
+
+Any option taking a command name as its argument now accepts a full
+command line as well.  Thus, it is now possible to pass additional
+arguments to invoked programs.  The affected options are:
+
+  --checkpoint-action=exec
+  -I, --use-compress-program
+  -F, --info-script
+  --to-command
+
+Furthermore, if any additional information is supplied to such a
+command via environment variables, these variables can now be used in
+the command line itself.  Care should be taken to escape them, to
+prevent from being expanded too early, for example:
+
+  tar -x -f a.tar --info-script='changevol $TAR_ARCHIVE $TAR_VOLUME'
+
 * New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging.
 
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