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Sergey Poznyakoff
2005-12-06 23:16:10 +00:00
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@@ -38,10 +38,21 @@ it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing
`tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
* New option --to-command pipes the contents of archive members to the
specified command.
* New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature
of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
access times.
* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
options. Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME. It can alter the
archive name by writing new name to the file descriptor 3.
* Better support for full-resolution time stamps. Tar cannot restore
time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time