cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive archive_read_support_format_all.c

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Fri May 28 10:08:52 PDT 2004


Andrey Chernov wrote:
> ... please don't forget implementing -S, --sparse
> from GNU tar ...

I do intend that bsdtar be able to read such files.
I know how to implement this, but haven't yet had
time to work through it all.

Writing is an altogether different matter, however.
(Mostly due to library API issues.)

> (really from old BSD tar).

Oh?  Which BSD tar?  I've looked through a lot
of tar documentation, but I must have missed that one.
Pointers appreciated.

Tim



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