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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2021-02-13
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+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2021-12-12
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Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>
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+
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+version TBD
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+
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+* Fail when building GNU tar, if the platform supports 64-bit time_t
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+ but the build uses only 32-bit time_t.
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+
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+* Leave the devmajor and devminor fields empty (rather than zero) for
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+ non-special files, as this is more compatible with traditional tar.
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+
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+* Bug fixes
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+
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+** Fix handling of prefix keywords not followed by "." in pax headers.
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+
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+** Fix handling of out-of-range sparse entries in pax headers.
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+
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+** Fix handling of --transform='s/s/@/2'.
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+
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+** Fix treatment of options ending in / in files-from list.
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+
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+** Fix crash on 'tar --checkpoint-action exec=\"'.
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+
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+** Fix low-memory crash when reading incremental dumps.
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version 1.34 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2021-02-13
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@@ -20,7 +43,7 @@ See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2021-01/msg00026.html
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version 1.33 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2021-01-07
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* POSIX extended format headers do not include PID by default
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The intent is to make binary-equivalent PAX archives easy to create. If
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POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the POSIX standard default is used, which embeds
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the pid.
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@@ -32,7 +55,7 @@ the pid.
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* Wildcards in exclude-vcs-ignore mode don't match slash
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* Fix the --no-overwrite-dir option
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-
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+
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Given this option, previous versions of tar failed to preserve
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permissions of empty directories and to create files under directories
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owned by the current user that did not have the S_IWUSR bit set.
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@@ -42,9 +65,9 @@ owned by the current user that did not have the S_IWUSR bit set.
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* Link counting works for file names supplied with -T
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* Accept only position-sensitive (file-selection) options in file list files.
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-
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+
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Using such options as -f, -z, etc. is senseless in a file list file and
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-bypasses option consistency checks in decode_options. Therefore,
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+bypasses option consistency checks in decode_options. Therefore,
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only options related to file selection (a.k.a position-sensitive options)
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are allowed in file list files.
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