locale-based failures on systems where the "C" locale is so permissive
that it cannot possibly fail. In particular, this fixes a test
problem on Cygwin.
feedback, but the 2.5 branch is shaping up nicely.)
In addition to many small bug fixes and code improvements:
* Another iteration of versioning; I think I've got it right now.
* Portability: A lot of progress on Windows support (though I'm
not committing all of the Windows support files to FreeBSD CVS)
* Explicit tracking of MBS, WCS, and UTF-8 versions of strings
in archive_entry; the archive_entry routines now correctly return
NULL only when something is unset, setting NULL properly clears
string values. Most charset conversions have been pushed down to
archive_string.
* Better handling of charset conversion failure when writing or
reading UTF-8 headers in pax archives
* archive_entry_linkify() provides multiple strategies for
hardlink matching to suit different format expectations
* More accurate bzip2 format detection
* Joerg Sonnenberger's extensive improvements to mtree support
* Rough support for self-extracting ZIP archives. Not an ideal
approach, but it works for the archives I've tried.
* New "sparsify" option in archive_write_disk converts blocks of nulls
into seeks.
* Better default behavior for the test harness; it now reports
all failures by default instead of coredumping at the first one.
(including pathname, gname, uname) be stored in UTF-8. This usually
doesn't cause problems on FreeBSD because the "C" locale on FreeBSD
can convert any byte to Unicode/wchar_t and from there to UTF-8. In
other locales (including the "C" locale on Linux which is really
ASCII), you can get into trouble with pathnames that cannot be
converted to UTF-8.
Libarchive's pax writer truncated pathnames and other strings at the
first nonconvertible character. (ouch!) Other archivers have worked
around this by storing unconvertible pathnames as raw binary, a
practice which has been sanctioned by the Austin group. However,
libarchive's pax reader would segfault reading headers that weren't
proper UTF-8. (ouch!) Since bsdtar defaults to pax format, this
affects bsdtar rather heavily.
To correctly support the new "hdrcharset" header that is going into
SUS and to handle conversion failures in general, libarchive's pax reader
and writer have been overhauled fairly extensively. They used to do
most of the pax header processing using wchar_t (Unicode); they now do
most of it using char so that common logic applies to either UTF-8 or
"binary" strings.
As a bonus, a number of extraneous conversions to/from wchar_t have
been eliminated, which should speed things up just a tad.
Thanks to: Bjoern Jacke for originally reporting this to me
Thanks to: Joerg Sonnenberger for noting a bad typo in my first draft of this
Thanks to: Gunnar Ritter for getting the standard fixed
MFC after: 5 days
