Changes:
- Support for BSDi version 4.x
- Suport for BSDi on sparc
- Support for sparc64 FreeBSD
- Support for i786-cygwin
- Added +DAportable to the HP-UX cc compiler flags
- New Platform 9000-831-hp-ux-cc
- Added floatingpint printing support for OS/2
- Added support for macppc-netbsd-cc NetBSD on MAC
- Workaround for an OpenBSD bug in ctype.h (illegaly #defines EOF)
- Added IPv6 support to 'rmt'
- Better casting for debug printf() in 'rmt'
- Better autoconfiguration for librmt and its users yields in better
compilation and portability results for OS that do not support the
needed internet features for remote tape support.
- Special support for an undocumented but unfortunately important
"feature" for symlinks on HP-UX.
Now star tries to retain the permissions of a symlink by
stting umask() before creating the symlink.
- Fixed a bug that caused star to be unable to correctly deal with
ACLs where the user or group name contains spaces.
- Workaround for reading rotten archives caused by above bug.
- Fixed a bug that caused star to create broken archives if
the POSIX.1-2001 extended format is used for sparse files > 8 GB.
For this reason, a new extended header tag SCHILY.realsize has
been added.
- Fixed a bug that caused star to dump core on UNIX-98 TAR compat mode
with e.g. 'star cbv' because star did not check for the missing arg to
the -b option.
- 'star -n -tpath ...' now only prints the pathnames to allow
to use the ooutput directly in scripts. If you like the old
behavior, use 'star -nv ...'
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.
