Major changes since 1.4.1:
- printf() now correctly handles %X vs. %x on 64 bit machines
Removed a 20 year old local extension that became non-portable.
- new 'librmt', which may be used by any external program like e.g.
dump/restore to improve cross platform compatibility.
- librmt now allows the use of ssh(1) for remote tape access.
- smt benefits from librmt and now gives platform independent
'mt status' output in remote mode.
- New option -wready for smt.
- Better man page for 'rmt'.
- Handle a seek error problem in create mode correctly when checking
for reading past max possible file size on non-large file OS.
- Correctly propagate write/read errors from FIFO to star.
- Add support for SIGINFO (*BSD) as a courtesy to BSD users.
- Do not open /dev/tty if a newvolume script is present.
This allows the use of star from cron scripts.
- Fixed a bug in the ACL handling code on Linux that caused star to
recognize ACL comments as ACL entries and include them in the archive.
- Work around to allow star to read ACL enhanced archives that
include bogus entries that really were ACL comments created by
the bug above.
The full list of changes can be found at:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/AN-1.4.2
<schilling@fokus.gmd.de>.
Star is a full-featured tar command that can access local and remote
tar archives (files and tapes). It reads and writes POSIX compliant
tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It includes
a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to
archive sparse files and ACLs and the ability to archive extended file flags.
It supports utomatic archive format detection, automatic byte order
recognition, automatic archivecompression/decompression. It includes the
only known platform independent "rmt" server program that implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to
contact any OS as server.
