From 4c690508bdb97cac5fe00134a9a363b77845c3a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:19:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add comment about what other letters are used. --- src/tar.h | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/tar.h b/src/tar.h index ff2977b..e514363 100644 --- a/src/tar.h +++ b/src/tar.h @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* GNU tar Archive Format description. - Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, - 1997, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, + 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the @@ -185,7 +185,12 @@ struct oldgnu_header #define OLDGNU_MAGIC "ustar " /* 7 chars and a null */ /* The standards committee allows only capital A through capital Z for - user-defined expansion. */ + user-defined expansion. Other letters in use include: + + 'A' Solaris Access Control List + 'E' Solaris Extended Attribute File + 'I' Inode only, as in 'star' + 'X' POSIX 1003.1-2001 eXtended (VU version) */ /* This is a dir entry that contains the names of files that were in the dir at the time the dump was made. */ -- 2.44.0