* 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.
a vanilla 2-clause BSD license, but somehow some confusing
extra verbage get copied from somewhere.
Also, update the copyright dates to 2007 for all of the files.
Prompted by: several questions about what those extra words really mean
and correct the use of unary minus with an unsigned value. (The unary
minus here is actually being used as a bitwise operation, which is
unusual enough to deserve a clarifying cast.)
internal format-specific functions return the same as the public
function, so that the public API layer doesn't have to guess the
correct return value. This addresses an obscure problem that occurs
when someone tries to write more data than the size of the entry (as
indicated in the entry header). In this case, the return value from
archive_write_data() was incorrect, reflecting the requested write
rather than the amount actually written.
MFC after: 15 days
* Actually use the HAVE_<header>_H macros to conditionally include
system headers. They've been defined for a long time, but only
used in a few places. Now they're used pretty consistently
throughout.
* Fill in a lot of missing casts for conversions from void*.
Although Standard C doesn't require this, some people have been
trying to use C++ compilers with this code, and they do require it.
Bit-for-bit, the compiled object files are identical, except for
one assert() whose line number changed, so I'm pretty confident I
didn't break anything. ;-)
This commit implements storing/reading POSIX.1e-style extended
attribute information in "pax" format archives. An outline of the
storage format is in the tar.5 manpage. The archive_read_extract()
function has code to restore those archives to disk for Linux; FreeBSD
implementation is forthcoming.
Many thanks to Jaakko Heinonen for finding flaws in earlier
proposals and doing the bulk of the coding in this work.
link names, usernames, or group names that contain
non-ASCII characters.
In particular, this corrects an inconsistency reported
by Ed Maste when archiving symlinks with odd characters:
long symlinks would get preserved, short ones would
be changed.
(wchar_t is defined in stddef.h, and only two files need more than that.)
Portability: Since the wchar requirements are really quite modest,
it's easy to define basic replacements for wcslen, wcscmp, wcscpy,
etc, for use on systems that lack <wchar.h>. In particular, this allows
libarchive to be used on older OpenBSD systems.
header of the pax extension entry, clip them to ustar limits. In particular,
this prevents an internal panic for very old files.
Thanks to: Chris Spiegel
MFC after: 7 days
from mode before using mode for extended attributes entry, copy
mtime/atime/ctime to extended attributes entry so it's a little more
clear that it corresponds to the like-named regular entry.
MFC after: 14 days
internal error if pax extended attributes were being generated. Being
< 255 characters, the first-pass path editing (to generate a
ustar-compatible name for the main entry) wouldn't occur, and the
second-pass path editing (to generate a ustar name for the pax
attributes entry) assumed the input was already < 245 chars.
The core problem here was using an abbreviated algorithm for the
second pass that relied on the first pass having already run. The
rewritten code is much simpler: It just uses the full path-shortening
algorithm for building both ustar pathnames. This way, the second
ustar pathname will always be short enough.
Thanks to: Mark Cammidge
Related to: bin/74385
the regular ustar entry. The old code sometimes created
a too-long name that overflowed the ustar fields and triggered
an internal assertion failure. This version should be more
robust.
Thanks to: Michal Listos
Fixes: bin/74385
MFC after: 15 days
ustar fields. Later, we're going to permit numeric extensions
for these fields, so we can support large values here. In particular,
this allows GNU tar to correctly extract such entries even
though it doesn't support the pax extended attributes.
Note: r1.18 and r1.17.2.1 of this file allowed similar treatment
of the uid/gid fields.
Thanks to: Ben Mesander
regular 'ustar' entry, use narrow-character version,
not wide-character version, as the ustar entry always
uses the narrow-character filename.
Thanks to: Michal Listos
Inspired by, but doesn't fix: bin/74385
the the pax attributes, I shouldn't try using the public
API for finishing out the attribute entry, either.
This also removes some old dubious state manipulations.
because the code was using the external API
(archive_write_data) and assuming internal
error-return conventions. Use the internal
API for writing data.
Thanks to: Joe Marcus Clarke
1. The correct cutoff for large uid/gid handling is 1<<18, not 1<<20.
2. Limit the uid/gid in the 'x' extension header (where numeric extensions
are not permitted) to 1<<18, but use the correct value in the regular
header (where numeric extensions are permitted).
Thanks to: Dan Nelson
MFC after: 3 days
in the regular ustar header that are overridden by the pax
extended attributes. As a result, it makes perfect sense to
use numeric extensions in the regular ustar header so that readers
that don't understand pax extensions but do understand some other
extensions can still get useful information out of it.
This is especially important for filesizes, as the failure to
read a file size correctly can get the reader out of sync.
This commit introduces a "non-strict" option into the internal
function to format a ustar header. In non-strict mode, the formatter
will use longer octal values (overwriting terminators) or binary
("base-256") values as needed to ensure that large file sizes,
negative mtimes, etc, have the correct values stored in the regular
ustar header.
Mostly, these were being used correctly even though a lot of
variables and function names were mis-named.
In the process, I found and fixed a couple of latent bugs and
added a guard against adding an archive to itself.
The new fflags support in archive_entry supports Linux and FreeBSD
file flags and is a bit more gracious about unrecognized flag names
than strtofflags(3). This involves some minor API breakage.
The default tar format ("restricted pax") now enables pax extensions
when archiving files that have flags. In particular, copying dir
heirarchies with 'bsdtar cf - -C src . | bsdtar xpf - -C dest' now
preserves file flags. (Note the "p" on extract!)
While I'm here, fill in some additional explanation in the
archive_entry.3 manpage, fill in some missing MLINKS, mark some
overlooked internal functions 'static', and make a few minor style
fixes.
High-resolution mtime/ctime/atime is not POSIX-standard, so hide
set/get of high-resolution time fields behind easily-mutable macros.
That makes it easier to change how those fields are accessed.
* Re-use a single buffer for shar output formatting rather
than hammering the heap. (archive_write_set_format_shar.c)
* Fix a handful of minor memory leaks and clean up some of the
memory-management code.
try to set ACLs even if fflag restore fails, first cut at reading
Solaris tar ACLs
Code improvement: merge gnu tar read support into main tar reader;
this eliminates a lot of duplicate code and generalizes the tar
reader to handle formats with GNU-like extensions.
Style: Makefile cleanup, eliminate 'dmalloc' references, remove 'tartype'
from archive_entry (this makes archive_entry more format-agnostic)
Thanks to: David Magda for providing Solaris tar test files
* ACL storage is no longer erased before a group of entries are added.
* ACL text creation no longer tries to skip over non-existent text.
* UTF8 encoder no longer blows up on invalid wide characters.
* Fixed ACL state management for default ACLs.
Also, publicize function for obtaining text-format ACL in various
formats. The interface is now extensible through a "flags" argument
that allows you to select a variant format.
with 'star' ACL handling, though there's still a
bit more work needed in this area.
Added 'write_open_fd' and 'read_open_fd' to simplify, e.g.,
tar's u and r modes. Eliminated old 'write_open_file_position'
as a bad idea. (It required closing/reopening files to
do updates, which led to unpleasant implications.)
Various other minor fixes, API tweaks, etc.
* Disabled shared-library building, as some API breakage is
still likely. (I didn't realize it was turned on by default.) If
you have an existing /usr/lib/libarchive.so.2, I recommend deleting it.
* Pax interchange format now correctly stores and reads UTF8
for extended attributes. In particular, pax format can portably
handle arbitrarily long pathnames containing arbitrary characters.
* Library compiles cleanly at -O2, -O3, and WARNS=6 on all
FreeBSD-CURRENT platforms.
* Minor portability improvements inspired by Juergen Lock
and Greg Lewis. (Less reliance on stdint.h, isolating of
various portability-challenged constructs.)
* archive_entry transparently converts multi-byte <-> wide character
strings, allowing clients and format handlers to deal with either
one, as appropriate.
* Support for reading 'L' and 'K' entries in standard tar archives
for star compatibility.
* Recognize (but don't yet handle) ACL entries from Solaris tar.
* Pushed format-specific data for format readers down into
format-specific storage and out of library-global storage. This
should make it easier to maintain individual formats without mucking
with the core library management.
* Documentation updates to track the above changes.
* Updates to tar.5 to correct a few mistakes and add some additional
information about GNU tar and Solaris tar formats.
Notes:
* The basic 'tar' reader is getting more general; there's not much
point in keeping the 'gnutar' reader separate. Merging the two
would lose a bunch of duplicate code.
* The libc ACL support is looking increasingly inadequate for my needs
here. I might need to assemble some fairly significant code for
parsing and building ACLs. <sigh>
Portability: Thanks to Juergen Lock, libarchive now compiles cleanly
on Linux. Along the way, I cleaned up a lot of error return codes and
reorganized some code to simplify conditional compilation of certain
sections.
Bug fixes:
* pax format now actually stores filenames that are 101-154
characters long.
* pax format now allows newline characters in extended attributes
(this fixes a long-standing bug in ACL handling)
* mtime/atime are now restored for directories
* directory list is now sorted prior to fix-up to permit
correct restore of non-writable dir heirarchies
the size in the archive_entry object to zero if that format doesn't
store a body for that file type. This allows the client to determine
whether or not it should feed the file body to the archive. In
particular, cpio stores the file body for hardlinks, tar and shar
don't. With this change, bsdtar now correctly archives hardlinks in all
supported formats.
While I'm here, make shar output be more aggressive about creating directories.
Before this, commands such as:
bsdtar -cv -F shar some/explicit/path/to/a/file
wouldn't create the directory. Some simple logic to remember the last
directory creation helps reduce unnecessary mkdirs here.
At this point, I think the only flaw in libarchive's cpio support is
the failure to recognize hardlinks when reading.
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.
