Options to control option handling in file lists.

[chaz/tar] / TODO

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 Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
 
+* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de>
+
 * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
 
-* Fix tar so that it can read and write POSIX.1-1990 tar archives.
+* 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.
 
-* Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives
-  (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001).
+* --append should bail out if the two archives are of different types.
 
 * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
   This would unify paxutils with tar.
 
-* Remove command-line incompatibilities between GNU tar and UNIX tar
-  as specified by UNIX98.  The main problem is:
-
-     l   GNU tar doesn't cross filesystem boundaries.
-        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.
-
 * Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation.
 
 * Add an option to remove files that compare successfully.
@@ -31,23 +25,45 @@ Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
   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 the new functonality.
+
+* Consider this:
+
+  From: Dennis Pund
+  Subject: TAR suggestion...
+  Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
+
+  What I would like to do is:
+
+  foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
+
+  where 'foo' is a program that retrieves the archive and streams it
+  to stdout and bar is a program that streams the stdin to CDR.
+
+  (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-05/msg00022.html)
+
+\f
 * Copyright notice
 
-  Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 2003-2004, 2007, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU tar.
 
-  This file is part of GNU tar.
+GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
 
-  GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-  any later version.
+GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
 
-  GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-  GNU General Public License for more details.
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-  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.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[         \f]*$"
+end: