access to the file data (if the file exists on
disk). This was broken for the first regular
file; fix it and add a test so it won't break again.
In particular, this fixes the following idiom for creating
a tar archive in which every file is owned by root:
tar cf - --format=mtree . \
| sed -e 's/uname=[a-z]*/uname=root/' -e 's/uid=[0-9]*/uid=0/' \
| tar cf - @-
This is an attempt to eliminate a lot of redundant
code from the read ("decompression") filters by
changing them to juggle arbitrary-sized blocks
and consolidate reblocking code at a single point
in archive_read.c.
Along the way, I've changed the internal read/consume
API used by the format handlers to a slightly
different style originally suggested by des@. It
does seem to simplify a lot of common cases.
The most dramatic change is, of course, to
archive_read_support_compression_none(), which
has just evaporated into a no-op as the blocking
code this used to hold has all been moved up
a level.
There's at least one more big round of refactoring
yet to come before the individual filters are as
straightforward as I think they should be...
feedback, but the 2.5 branch is shaping up nicely.)
In addition to many small bug fixes and code improvements:
* Another iteration of versioning; I think I've got it right now.
* Portability: A lot of progress on Windows support (though I'm
not committing all of the Windows support files to FreeBSD CVS)
* Explicit tracking of MBS, WCS, and UTF-8 versions of strings
in archive_entry; the archive_entry routines now correctly return
NULL only when something is unset, setting NULL properly clears
string values. Most charset conversions have been pushed down to
archive_string.
* Better handling of charset conversion failure when writing or
reading UTF-8 headers in pax archives
* archive_entry_linkify() provides multiple strategies for
hardlink matching to suit different format expectations
* More accurate bzip2 format detection
* Joerg Sonnenberger's extensive improvements to mtree support
* Rough support for self-extracting ZIP archives. Not an ideal
approach, but it works for the archives I've tried.
* New "sparsify" option in archive_write_disk converts blocks of nulls
into seeks.
* Better default behavior for the test harness; it now reports
all failures by default instead of coredumping at the first one.
"file" is described by multiple "lines" each possibly containing
multiple "keywords." Incorporate some additions from Joerg Sonnenberger
to handle linked files and correctly deal with backing files on disk.
that I've been working on but put off committing until after the
RELENG_7 branch, including:
* New manpages: cpio.5 mtree.5
* New archive_entry_strmode()
* New archive_entry_link_resolver()
* New read support: mtree format
* Internal API change: read format auction only runs once
* Running the auction only once allowed simplifying a lot of bid logic.
* Cpio robustness: search for next header after a sync error
* Support device nodes on ISO9660 images
* Eliminate a lot of unnecessary copies for uncompressed archives
* Corrected handling of new GNU --sparse --posix formats
* Correctly handle a zero-byte write to a compressed archive
* Fixed memory leaks
Many of these improvements were motivated by the upcoming bsdcpio
front-end.
There have also been extensive improvements to the libarchive_test
test harness, which I'll commit separately.
