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| author | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-05-26 15:48:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-05-26 15:48:27 +0000 |
| commit | 4758bf2169a6c72430dd1f2f374a4bdd6d14fcd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 38661eca918246cc8295e0608ceae7dcd7b2bc8e | |
| parent | e044959742d38f43685d1b07d2e3bd7123945e0e (diff) | |
document somewhat oldish improvements
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Ustar.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Ustar.pod b/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Ustar.pod index 95b874f361e..dd19e71e126 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Ustar.pod +++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Ustar.pod @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: OpenBSD::Ustar.pod,v 1.19 2012/08/30 02:52:16 william Exp $ +$OpenBSD: OpenBSD::Ustar.pod,v 1.20 2019/05/26 15:48:26 espie Exp $ =head1 NAME @@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ OpenBSD::Ustar - simple access to Ustar C<tar(1)> archives C<OpenBSD::Ustar> provides an API to read, write and copy archives compatible with C<tar(1)>. -For the time being, it can only handle the USTAR archive format. + +For the time being, it can only handle the USTAR archive format, +but is supports the C<XHDR> (x blocktype) extension for accurately +representing long hard links and symbolic links. +It also accurately recognize some common extensions that it doesn't process. A filehandle C<$fh> is associated with an C<OpenBSD::Ustar> object through C<new>. For archive reading, the filehandle should support |