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12 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
sin
e3cdcce2ec Clarify that compression is now supported in tar.1 2015-05-08 15:56:21 +01:00
sin
198238bd5d Bump date in tar.1 2015-05-08 15:56:21 +01:00
Hiltjo Posthuma
1d9d17eba2 tar: add support for compressing with an external tool
... and add xz, compress and lzma as options
2015-05-08 15:56:20 +01:00
sin
e6c532a47a tar: Briefly update manpage and usage for the latest changes 2015-04-21 15:43:52 +01:00
FRIGN
b6b977f63d Audit tar(1), add DIRFIRST-flag to recurse()
I've been wanting to do this for a while now, as tar(1) used to
be one of messiest and cruftiest tools.
First off, before walking through the audit, I'll talk about
what the DIRFIRST-flag for recurse() does.
It basically calls fn() on the first-level-dir before calling
it's subentries. It's necessary here, because else the order
of the tar-files would've been wrong (it would try to create
dir/file before creating dir/).

Now, to the audit:
1)  Update manpage, fix mistake that compression is also available
    for compressing. It's only available for extracting.
2)  Define the major, minor and makedev macros from glibc by ourselves.
    No need to rely on them, as they are common sense.

decomp()
3)  Simple refactorization.

putoctal()
4)  Add a truncation check for snprintf().

archive()
5)  BUGFIX: Add checks to any checkable function, don't blindly call
    them, this is harmful and there are 100 ways to exploit that.
6)  Use estrlcpy() instead of snprintf() wherever possible, fix
    alignment.
7)  BUGFIX: Terminate the result-buffer of readlink(), check if
    it even succeeded.
8)  Fix sizeof()-formatting.

unarchive()
9)  BUGFIX: Add checks to any checkable function, don't blindly call
    them, this is harmful and there are 100 ways to exploit that.
10) BUGFIX: strtoul can happily return negative numbers. Add checks
    for that and also if the full string has been processed.
11) Remove calls to perror(). We have eprintf, use it.
12) BUGFIX: "minor = strtoul(h->mode, 0, 8);". We need h->minor of
    course.
13) Fix typo "usupported", remove fprintf-call.

print()
14) Check fread().

xt()
15) Get rid of snprintf-magic. Use estrlcat().
16) BUGFIX: check for ferror() on the tarfile.

usage()
17) Update it. The old usage() was like 1000 years old.

main()
18) Add DIRFIRST-flag to the recursor.
19) Don't print usage() when a mode is re-set. We allow this in
    general.
20) Add function checks and fix error messages.
21) Add tarfilename-global for proper error-messages.
2015-03-21 01:30:47 +01:00
Tai Chi Minh Ralph Eastwood
bd89474b8a tar.1: add symbolic link dereferencing to manpage 2015-02-09 22:54:53 +00:00
FRIGN
5699d5fb64 Refactor tar(1) manpage
and mark it as finished in the README.
Specifically, add a small section on the compression flags, which
are basically an infected GNU limb which should be removed from
the face of the earth as soon as possible.
2015-02-08 23:16:27 +01:00
sin
0934e7f6ed Add .Os sbase and sed replace to .Os sbase $(VERSION) in make install 2015-01-31 19:37:03 +00:00
Hiltjo Posthuma
4a920a5960 remove sbase-VERSION from man page, fix sponge.1 date 2015-01-31 14:20:02 +01:00
Hiltjo Posthuma
67e374bcba tar.1: convert to mandoc
- simplify usage line.
- add new flags (-m, -j and -z).
- fix typos.
2015-01-31 14:05:23 +01:00
David Galos
9f8deb4b23 Tar compiles on BSD, thanks Roberto E. Vargas Caballero. Also remove tons of trailing whitespace. 2013-07-20 01:27:42 -04:00
David Galos
2c75eb98d9 Adding tar. 2013-07-18 11:15:35 -04:00