exercises and verifies the libarchive APIs:
* Improved error reporting; hexdumps are now provided for
many file/memory content differences.
* Overall status more clearly counts "tests" and "assertions"
* Reference files can now be stored on disk instead of having
to be compiled into the test program itself. A couple of
tests have been converted to this more natural structure.
* Several memory leaks corrected so that leaks within libarchive
itself can be more easily detected and diagnosed.
* New test: GNU tar compatibility
* New test: Zip compatibility
* New test: Zero-byte writes to a compressed archive entry
* New test: archive_entry_strmode() format verification
* New test: mtree reader
* New test: write/read of large (2G - 1TB) entries to tar archives
(thanks to recent performance work, this test only requires a few seconds)
* New test: detailed format verification of cpio odc and newc writers
* Many minor additions/improvements to existing tests as well.
* libarchive_test program exercises many of the core features
* Refactored old "read_extract" into new "archive_write_disk", which
uses archive_write methods to put entries onto disk. In particular,
you can now use archive_write_disk to create objects on disk
without having an archive available.
* Pushed some security checks from bsdtar down into libarchive, where
they can be better optimized.
* Rearchitected the logic for creating objects on disk to reduce
the number of system calls. Several common cases now use a
minimum number of system calls.
* Virtualized some internal interfaces to provide a clearer separation
of read and write handling and make it simpler to override key
methods.
* New "empty" format reader.
* Corrected return types (this ABI breakage required the "2.0" version bump)
* Many bug fixes.
