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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Eric Andersen
57ebebfb01 Patch from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> to
simplify ar.c and make it more readable.
 -Erik
2000-07-05 17:21:58 +00:00
Eric Andersen
852ff13fc4 Update to ar.c from Glenn McGrath. His comments follow:
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the attached diff applies to the ar.c i originally submitted

Changes

Preserve dates now works.
Extracted files are set to the uid, gid and mode specified in the
archive.
Checks for valid end of header marker.
Correctly unpacks newer debian files. (has a '\n' character between
entries)
Added more comments.
Cleaned up code.
Added a last modified date to help keep track of versions.


TODO

Common functionality in ar.c are in tar.c should be merged, in
particular getOctal and extractSubFile.

Should all functions that are used by multiple file go in utilities.c ?
2000-06-16 04:56:40 +00:00
Eric Andersen
86ab8a32bd A number of additional fixed from Pavel Roskin, note some more bugs in the
TODO list.  Add Glenn to the Authors list for writing a mini ar for BusyBox,
which is now included.
 -Erik
2000-06-02 03:21:42 +00:00