X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=c56d3359553e6c9819431c36a624169416a922ca;hp=153c4eab15cc995ba456ca811f0a78fba9bbd4f0;hb=HEAD;hpb=51065802f50273b5b3fa0707d9ffbdac9f9b89ac diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 153c4ea..c56d335 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,15 +1,69 @@ -* TODO file for GNU tar -*- outline -*- - -Tell if you feel like volunteering for any -of these ideas, listed more or less in decreasing order of priority. -Some TODO items are implicit from received email. See file BACKLOG. -Significant contributions require written assignments and disclaimers. - -.* create.c: diagnostics missing when `goto badfile'. -.* compare.c: confusion between stderr and stdlis, WARN and ERROR. -.* --ignore-failed-read might have been defeated. -.* Better clean sources for list.c, extract.c, create.c and buffer.c. -.* revise all NAMSIZ references, too often related to short buffers. -.* current_link_name, current_file_name not always quoted when printed. -.* Take over script maintenance, implement a `restore' script. -.* Make a debugging feature out of all `#if 0'. +Suggestions for improving GNU tar. + +* <45BEC0DB.8040903@unix-beratung.de> + +* 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 a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001. + This would unify paxutils with tar. + +* Interoperate better with Joerg Schilling's star implementation. + +* Add an option to remove files that compare successfully. + + From: Roesinger Eric + Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:43:43 -0500 + + 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) + + +* Copyright notice + +Copyright 2003-2004, 2007, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +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 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 . + + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: