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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
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Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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+version 1.16.1
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+* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e.
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+ files the appearance of which in a directory means that the directory
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+ should not be archived.
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+
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+* The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the
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+ CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded
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+ only the directory contents, while the directories themselves were
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+ still added to the archive.
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* Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed.
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This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'.
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Unfortunately its implementation had security holes; see
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@@ -13,6 +24,7 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when
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running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been.
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version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
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* After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were
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Sergey Poznyakoff