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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2004-05-19 14:27:22 +0000
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2004-05-19 14:27:22 +0000
commitba08e339a6e05e2a0d1432efdadd67ff2c63f834 (patch)
tree6c7019bbe7e719a0d26fdc09f387a6dec8289602
parent951b0370df3312cec343c590007301d3edd1be80 (diff)
downloadtar-ba08e339a6e05e2a0d1432efdadd67ff2c63f834.tar.gz
(struct fmttab): Accept 'pax' as alias
for 'posix' (options): New option -n (--seek).
-rw-r--r--src/tar.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c
index 155645d..a01b62a 100644
--- a/src/tar.c
+++ b/src/tar.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ static struct fmttab {
{ "star", STAR_FORMAT },
#endif
{ "gnu", GNU_FORMAT },
+ { "pax", POSIX_FORMAT }, /* An alias for posix */
{ NULL, 0 }
};
@@ -249,14 +250,13 @@ The version control may be set with --backup or VERSION_CONTROL, values are:\n\n
/* NOTE:
- Available option letters are DEIJQY and aenqy. Consider the following
+ Available option letters are DEIJQY and aeqy. Consider the following
assignments:
[For Solaris tar compatibility]
e exit immediately with a nonzero exit status if unexpected errors occur
E use extended headers (--format=posix)
[q alias for --occurrence=1 =/= this would better be used for quiet?]
- n the archive is quickly seekable, so don't worry about random seeks
[I same as T =/= will harm star compatibility]
y per-file gzip compression
@@ -317,7 +317,9 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = {
N_("do not exit with nonzero on unreadable files"), 21 },
{"occurrence", OCCURRENCE_OPTION, N_("NUMBER"), OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL,
N_("process only the NUMth occurrence of each file in the archive. This option is valid only in conjunction with one of the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list and when a list of files is given either on the command line or via -T option. NUMBER defaults to 1."), 21 },
-
+ {"seek", 'n', NULL, 0,
+ N_("Archive is seekable"), 21 },
+
{NULL, 0, NULL, 0,
N_("Handling of file attributes:"), 30 },
@@ -738,6 +740,10 @@ parse_opt(int key, char *arg, struct argp_state *state)
multi_volume_option = true;
break;
+
+ case 'n':
+ seekable_archive = true;
+ break;
#if !MSDOS
case 'N':