Use the old fork() method of tar compression support, rather than
read_bz2....
- (*uncompress)(int in, int out) seems like a more natural interface
for compression code.
- it might improve performance by seperating the work into one cpu
bound and one io bound process.
- There is extra code required to do read_[gz|bunzip] since (*uncompress)(int in,
int out) will normally be used by the standalone compression applet.
There have been problems with this method so if you see a "Short read"
error let me know.
directory.
From http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_123.html
REGTYPE
AREGTYPE
These flags represent a regular file. In order to be compatible with
older versions of tar, a typeflag value of AREGTYPE should be silently
recognized as a regular file. New archives should be created using
REGTYPE. Also, for backward compatibility, tar treats a regular file
whose name ends with a slash as a directory.
complain "unknown file type" if it tries to extract an oldgnu tar file
and TAR_FEATURE_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY sint defined.
Print a warning if unisupported gnu extensions are encountered.
