We've already seen the issue with echo(1): Before we changed it to
ignore "--", the command
$ echo --
did not work as expected. Given POSIX mandated this and makes most
sense, in the interest of consistency the other tools need to be
streamlined for that as well.
Looking at yes(1) for instance, there's no reason to skip "--" in
the argument list.
We do not have long options like GNU does and there's no reason to
tinker with that here.
The majority of tools changed are ones taking lists of arguments
or only a single one. There's no reason why dirname should "fail"
on "--". In the end, this is a valid name.
The practice of hand-holding the user was established with the GNU
coreutils. "--help" and "--version" long-options are a disgrace to
what could've been done properly with manpages.
When we selectively process entries from the archive, ensure that
we jump over the data section of each uninteresting entry before going
on to process the next entry. Not doing so, leaves the file stream
pointer in the wrong place.
This particular change does not have any immediate shortcomings.
We still print a warning to alert the user.
Exiting on a chown() failure caused problems when untarring
inside a restricted user namespace on Linux where the uid/gid
mappings were limited.
Not all archives are packed in such way to be generated without
having to recursively generate the output path.
For now, reuse the function from mkdir.c and later move it to
libutil.
Numeric fields can be <space> terminated. Ensure those are
patched with NULs so we can perform string operations.
There is more work to be done in this area, namely some fields like
name, linkname and prefix are not always null-terminated.
recurse() is getting smarter every day. I expect it to pass the Turing
test in a few months.
Along the way, it was reported that "rm -f" on nonexistant files reports
their missing as an internal recurse()-error.
So recurse() knows when to shut up, I added the SILENT flag to fix all
these things.
The restructuring of recurse() in the last few weeks actually broke
the recursion-flags in different tools.
As a long-term goal, the recursor should have a field "maxdepth"
which should be "1" for the non-Rflag-case. "0" stands for unlimited.
FRIGN
Hiltjo Posthuma
sin
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Evan Gates
Jakob Kramer