This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
link to another file which has a long (>=100 char) name. When listing such
an archive, the name of the link is truncated to 99 characters, and when
extracting such an archive, an error is reported because it is trying to
create a hard link to a file which doesn't exist. This patch fixes that
problem and has also been sent to the GNU maintainers.
Closes PR#1992
Submitted-By: David Dawes <dawes@landfill.physics.usyd.edu.au>
instead of decimal. Also, don't use the `l' modifier for something
that has just been cast to `int' anyway.
Remove various bogus pathnames to look up rsh(1) at. Our rsh is in
/usr/bin, but never in /usr/usb, nor would it ever be called remsh...
Also, if it hasn't been found there, use execlp() to look it up. the
latter is required for `weird' environments like a fixit floppy where
the regular /usr/bin hiearrchy is not avaiable. tar should probably
do it similar to dump/restore, and use rcmd(3) instead of forking an
external process.
cpio/copyout.c:
Don't output a file if the major, minor or totality of its rdev would be
truncated. Print a message about the skipped files to stderr but don't
report the error in the exit status. cpio's abysmal error handling doesn't
allow continuing after an error, and the rdev checks had to be misplaced
to avoid the problem of returning an error code from routines that return
void.
pax/pax.h:
Use the system macros for major(), minor() and makedev().
pax already checks _all_ output conversions for overflow. This has the
undesirable effect that failure to convert relatively useless fields
such as st_dev for regular files causes files not to be output. pax
doesn't report exactly which fields couldn't be converted.
tar/create.c:
Don't output a file if the major or minor its rdev would be truncated.
Print a message about the skipped files to stderr and report the error
in the exit status.
tar/tar.c:
For not immediately fatal errors, exit with status 1, not the error count
(mod 256).
All:
Minor numbers are limited to 21 bits in pax's ustar format and to 18
bits in archives created by gnu tar (gnu tar wastes 3 bits for padding).
pax's and cpio's ustar format is incompatible with gnu tar's ustar
format for other reasons (see cpio/README).
file specifications when they've been extracted (enabling you to get a file
fast if it occurs somewhere close to the front).
Submitted by: Marc van Kempen <wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl>
I know that many of these entries are bogus and need to be revisited,
but let's get the tree working again for now and then do a pass through
looking at all the __FreeBSD__ entries, shall we?
I know that I said earlier that this should be unconditional behaviour,
but I thought about it a little more and concluded that the principle of least
surprise dictates that I make it an option.
