tar: live within system-supplied limits on file descriptors

[chaz/tar] / src / tar.h

diff --git a/src/tar.h b/src/tar.h
index fddc83fbfdf065aa08ce3d8a2ae766b1590ab9b3..ce9850c968533db8b49ddc0b9f78e81c6333cabc 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tar.h
+++ b/src/tar.h
@@ -317,6 +317,26 @@ struct tar_stat_info
   bool skipped;             /* The member contents is already read
                               (for GNUTYPE_DUMPDIR) */
   char *dumpdir;            /* Contents of the dump directory */
+
+  /* Parent directory, if creating an archive.  This is null if the
+     file is at the top level.  */
+  struct tar_stat_info *parent;
+
+  /* Directory stream.  If this is not null, it is in control of FD,
+     and should be closed instead of FD.  */
+  DIR *dirstream;
+
+  /* File descriptor, if creating an archive, and if a directory or a
+     regular file or a contiguous file.
+
+     It is zero if no file descriptor is available, either because it
+     was never needed or because it was open and then closed to
+     conserve on file descriptors.  (Standard input is never used
+     here, so zero cannot be a valid file descriptor.)
+
+     It is negative if it could not be reopened after it was closed.
+     Negate it to find out what errno was when the reopen failed.  */
+  int fd;
 };
 
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