* use "AR_GNU" as the format name instead of AR_SVR4 (it's what everyone is going to call it anyway)
* Simplify numeric parsing to unsigned (none of the numeric values should ever be negative); don't run off end of numeric fields.
* Finish parsing the common header fields before the next I/O request (which might dump the contents)
* Be smarter about format guessing and trimming filenames.
* Most of the magic values are only used in one place, so just inline them.
* Many more comments.
* Be smarter about handling damaged entries; return something reasonable.
* Call it a "filename table" instead of a "string table"
* Update tests.
Enable selection of 'ar', 'arbsd', and 'argnu' formats by name
(this allows bsdtar to create ar format archives).
The 'ar' writer still needs some work; it should reject
entries that aren't regular files and should probably also
strip leading paths from filenames.
for directories. bsdtar used to add this, but that recently got
lost somehow. So now I'm adding it back in libarchive.
The only odd part of doing this in libarchive: Adding a directory to
a tar archive and then reading it back again can yield a different name.
Add a test case to exercise some boundary conditions with
tar filenames and ensure that trailing slashes are added to
dir names only as necessary.
Thanks to: Oliver Lehmann for bringing this regression to my attention.
Don't change permissions on an existing dir unless _EXTRACT_PERM
is requested.
In particular, bsdtar -x should not edit mode of existing dirs
now; bsdtar -xp will.
* The ACL formatter was mis-formatting entries which had a
user/group ID but no name. Make the parser tolerant of
these, so that old archives can be correctly restored;
fix the formatter to generate correct entries.
* Fix overwrite detection by introducing a new "FAILED" return
code that indicates the current entry cannot be continued
but the archive as a whole is still sound.
* Header cleanup: Remove some unused headers, add some that
are required with new Linux systems.
These tests verify that archive_entry objects can store and return
ACL data and that pax format archives can read and write ACL
information. These do not (yet) test that ACL data is read or
written to disk correctly. (And hence would not have caught the
recent snafu about ACL read-from-disk being turned off.)
* 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.
