While I'm here, fix a bug in reading filenames from
cpio files. (Copy should count the length of the name,
not the number of bytes available for input.)
Unfortunately, the stock zlib.h is not:
line 885: 'err' parameter shadows global 'err' definition from <err.h>
Back the WARNS level down to 3 to accomodate borked zlib.h.
What it is:
A library for reading and writing various streaming archive
formats, especially tar and cpio. Being a library, it should
be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any
other place that needs to read or write such archives.
Features:
* Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format.
* Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats.
* Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format
that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats.
* BSD license
Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for
encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style
questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement.
Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and
the library could always use more testing. Feedback eagerly solicited.
