Paul Eggert [Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:43:16 +0000 (09:43 -0700)]
Improve reproducibility recipe
* doc/tar.texi (Reproducibility): Improve index.
Improve and add comments to recipe. In the recipe,
don’t worry about file names beginning with ‘-’ for simplicity;
don’t use touch -c as it exits with status 0 even when it
does not work; and set directory timestamps too.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:48:25 +0000 (15:48 -0700)]
tests: fix LDADD
Problem reported by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2023-07/msg00015.html
* tests/Makefile.am (LDADD): Add $(LIBINTL), $(LIBICONV).
Paul Eggert [Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:15:03 +0000 (09:15 -0700)]
tests: fix TESTSUITE_AT
Problem reported by Lukas Javorsky <ljavorsk@redhat.com> in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2023-07/msg00002.html
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Add exclude17.at, exclude18.at.
Remove compress.m4; all uses changed. Add a comment saying how
to rederive this. Sort.
* src/common.h (name): New field: is_wildcard.
(name_scan): Change protoype.
* src/delete.c: Update calls to name_scan.
* src/names.c (addname, add_starting_file): Initialize is_wildcard.
(namelist_match): Take two arguments. If second one is true, return
only exact matches.
(name_scan): Likewise. All callers updated.
(name_from_list): Skip patterns.
* src/update.c (remove_exact_name): New function.
(update_archive): Do not remove matching name, if it is a pattern.
Instead, add a new entry with the matching file name.
* tests/update04.at: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new test.
* tests/testsuite.at: Include new test.
* doc/tar.1: Add missing dots, use plural when necessary,
tweak a wording. Remove an incorrect observation, three times.
Add some missing articles, correct some formatting,
and expand the opaque descriptions of two options.
* doc/tar.texi: Drop a stray `cd` command from an example.
Correct two cross references, correct the paragraph
about the manpage, and unbreak a URL.
* src/names.c: Correct and shorten an error message: "non-optional"
means "mandatory", but "non-option" is what was meant. And the
phrase "in archive create or update mode" was both unneeded and
incomplete.
* tests/positional01.at: Change expected error text.
* tests/positional02.at: Likewise.
* tests/positional03.at: Likewise.
Paul Eggert [Sun, 25 Jun 2023 19:54:20 +0000 (12:54 -0700)]
tar: extract delayed links in order
Extract delayed links in tar file order, rather than
in hash table order with modifications.
This is simpler and more likely to use the kernel’s
cached filesystem data, assuming related delayed links
are nearby in the tar file.
* src/extract.c (struct delayed_link.has_predecessor):
Remove. All uses removed.
(delayed_link_head, delayed_link_tail): New static vars.
This resurrects delayed_link_head’s old function
except that the linked list is now in forward order, not reverse.
(find_delayed_link_source): Now simply returns bool,
since the callers no longer need the pointer.
(create_placeholder_file):
Put the delayed link at the end of the linked list.
Omit no-longer-needed last arg. All callers changed.
(apply_delayed_links): Simplify now that we can just iterate
through the delayed_link_head list.
Paul Eggert [Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:54:14 +0000 (13:54 -0700)]
tar: make safe for -Wunused-parameter
This also ports to C23 [[maybe_unused]].
* configure.ac (WARN_CFLAGS): Do not add -Wno-unused-parameter.
Add MAYBE_UNUSED where needed in source code.
Also, put it at the front where C23 requires it.
* src/extract.c (create_placeholder_file): Use FLEXNSIZEOF (overlooked
by c542d3d0c8)
(apply_delayed_links): Don't follow the "next" chain after its entries
have been applied.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 16 Jun 2023 23:34:19 +0000 (16:34 -0700)]
Port to strict C99 struct hack
Portability bug caught by GCC 13 -fstrict-flex-arrays.
* gnulib.modules: Add flexmember.
* src/create.c (struct link):
* src/exclist.c (struct excfile):
* src/extract.c (struct delayed_link, struct string_list):
Include <flexmember.h>. Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER, for
portability to strict C99 or later. All storage
allocations changed to use FLEXNSIZEOF.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 16 Jun 2023 23:34:19 +0000 (16:34 -0700)]
Use Gnulib ‘dup2’ module
This simplifies code that would otherwise use dup and close.
* gnulib.modules: Add dup2.
* src/system.c: Add #pragma to pacify GCC 13.
(xdup2): Simplify by using dup2.
Pavel Raiskup [Tue, 6 Jun 2023 09:33:27 +0000 (12:33 +0300)]
Fix --xattr-include='*' documentation
* doc/tar.texi (Extended File Attributes): The default extraction
pattern consists of just 'user.*' namespace only. While on it, try
to explain the reasons for this default behavior.
Based on patch from Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
* src/xattrs.c (acls_get_text): New function. If given --numeric-owner,
use acl_to_any_text to convert ACL to textual representation. Print
warning if that function is not available.
(xattrs__acls_get_a, xattrs__acls_get_d): Use acls_get_text.
Add missing option to manpage and remove duplicate operation
* doc/tar.1: Add needed option -f after operation -A, sort operation -t
alphabetically, add --file after --concatenate, consistently use long
option --file in the GNU-style section, and delete duplicate --update.
* doc/tar.texi: Add small missing word, and lowercase a letter.
* src/extract.c (maybe_recoverable): If make_directories indicates
success, suppose some intermediate directories have been made, even
if in fact they have not. That's necessary to avoid dead loops when
maybe_recoverable is called with the same arguments again.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 6 Jan 2023 20:47:09 +0000 (12:47 -0800)]
Go back to single-file bootstrap
Gnulib now supports a single-file bootstrap with --pull
and --gen options, in place of the three files
autopull.sh, autogen.sh, bootstrap-funclib.sh.
This keeps the top level a bit cleaner.
* bootstrap: Sync from Gnulib build-aux/bootstrap
instead of from top/bootstrap.
* autopull.sh, autogen.sh, bootstrap-funclib.sh: Remove.
Optionally warn about missing zero blocks at the end of the archive
(In response to savannah bug #63574)
* doc/intern.texi: Document actual tar behaviour in regard to
missing end-of-file marker.
* doc/tar.texi: Rewrite the "warnings" section. Document
--warning=missing-zero-blocks
* src/common.h (WARN_MISSING_ZERO_BLOCKS): New constant.
(WARN_ALL): Include all warning bits.
* src/list.c (read_and): If EOF is reached without seeing end-of-file
blocks and the "missing-zero-blocks" warning is requested, warn about
the fact.
* src/warning.c: New warnings: "missing-zero-blocks", "verbose".
(warning_option): Change definition to reflect changes in common.h
Paul Eggert [Fri, 4 Nov 2022 06:07:11 +0000 (23:07 -0700)]
Fix -Af F bug when F is not a regular file
Problem reported by Boris Gjenero in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-11/msg00001.html
* src/update.c (append_file): Don’t assume that FILE_NAME is a
regular file whose size can be determined before reading.
Instead, simply read from the file until its end is reached.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 4 Nov 2022 05:56:18 +0000 (22:56 -0700)]
Fix README-* files
README-alpha is for alpha releases, which are not from Git or CVS, so
omit mention of that. I'm not sure we'll ever do alpha releases, but
if we do, README-alpha assumes the tarballs are already bit.
Update README-hacking with info that was mistakenly put into
README-alpha. Also mention Bison, needed for parse-date.y.
The bug was introduced by commit 79d1ac38c1, which didn't take into
account all the consequences of returning RECOVER_OK on EEXIST, in
particular interactions with the delayed_set_stat logic.
The commit 79d1ac38c1 is reverted (the bug it was intended to fix
was actually fixed by 79a442d7b0). Instead:
* src/extract.c (maybe_recoverable): Don't call maybe_recoverable
if EEXIST is reported when UNLINK_FIRST_OLD_FILES option is set.
Aurélien Martin [Fri, 7 Oct 2022 19:08:40 +0000 (21:08 +0200)]
tar: fix --exclude-vcs-ignores memory
The function frees the patterns' wordsplit structure without asking
add_exclude to reallocate the strings. In many cases, this leads to
each file name in the directory being checked against the memory
location where it just got reallocated.
* src/exclist.c: Use EXCLUDE_ALLOC.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes
Paul Eggert [Sat, 10 Sep 2022 21:44:36 +0000 (16:44 -0500)]
build: update submodules to latest
* src/common.h: Include <inttostr.h> since paxutils no longer does.
(STRINGIFY_BIGINT): New macro, copied from older paxutils.
(UINTMAX_STRSIZE_BOUND): New constant, also from older paxutils.
Paul Eggert [Sat, 3 Sep 2022 23:22:34 +0000 (18:22 -0500)]
Fix data loss when acting as filter
This bug was introduced by the recent lseek-related changes.
* src/delete.c (delete_archive_members):
* src/update.c (update_archive):
Copy the member if acting as a filter, rather than lseeking over
it, which is possible if stdin is a regular file.
* src/list.c (skim_file, skim_member):
* src/sparse.c (sparse_skim_file):
New functions, for copying when a filter.
* src/list.c (skip_file): Remove; replaced with skim_file.
All callers changed.
(skip_member): Reimplement in terms of skim_member.
* src/sparse.c (sparse_skip_file):
Remove; replaced with sparse_skim_file. All callers changed.
* src/update.c (acting_as_filter): New static var.
(update_archive): Set it; this is like delete.c.
* tests/delete01.at (deleting a member after a big one):
* tests/delete02.at (deleting a member from stdin archive):
Also test filter case.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:38:29 +0000 (16:38 -0500)]
Do not diagnose same xattr file twice
* src/extract.c (set_xattr): Simplify, by having it do only
the mknodat and xattrs_xattrs_set, rather than also
trying to recover from failure. Caller simplified too.
* tests/xattr07.at (xattrs: xattrs and --skip-old-files):
Adjust test to match fixed behavior.
Paul Eggert [Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:23:23 +0000 (15:23 -0500)]
Fix bug with -x --xattr read-only files
Problem reported by Kevin Raymond in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886540
* src/extract.c (open_output_file): If we already created the
empty file, do not open with O_EXCL, or with O_CREAT or O_TRUNC
for that matter. Instead, use only O_NOFOLLOW to avoid some
races. When estimating current mode, use openflag & O_EXCL rather
than overwriting_old_files.
(extract_file): Also invert S_IWUSR if it’s not set.
* tests/xattr08.at: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am, tests/testsuite.at: Add it.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:05:53 +0000 (00:05 -0700)]
Avoid quadratic behavior with delayed links
Do this by searching a hash table instead of a linked list.
Problem reported by Martin Dørum in https://mort.coffee/home/tar/
via Gavin Smith in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-07/msg00003.html
* src/extract.c: Include hash.h.
Improve performance a bit on non-birthtime hosts
(struct delayed_link.has_predecessor): New member.
(delayed_link_head): Remove, replacing with ...
(delayed_link_table): ... this new variable. All uses
of linked list replaced with hash table.
(dl_hash, dl_compare): New functions for hash table.
(create_placeholder_file): Initialize has_predecessor.
(apply_delayed_link): New function, with body taken from
most of the old apply_delayed_link.
(apply_delayed_links): Use it. Respect has_predecessor.
Don’t bother freeing as we are about to exit.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:16:42 +0000 (23:16 -0700)]
Improve performance a bit on non-birthtime hosts
* src/extract.c (HAVE_BIRTHTIME, BIRTHTIME_EQ): New macros.
(struct delayed_link, create_placeholder_file, extract_link)
(apply_delayed_links): Avoid unnecessary work on platforms
like GNU/Linux that lack birthtime.
Paul Eggert [Sun, 14 Aug 2022 23:32:26 +0000 (16:32 -0700)]
Avoid excess lseek etc.
* src/buffer.c, src/delete.c: Do not include system-ioctl.h.
* src/buffer.c (guess_seekable_archive): Remove. This is now done
by get_archive_status, in a different way.
(get_archive_status): New function that gets archive_stat
unless remote, and sets seekable_archive etc.
(_open_archive): Prefer bool for boolean.
(_open_archive, new_volume): Get archive status consistently
by calling get_archive_status in both places.
* src/buffer.c (backspace_output):
* src/compare.c (verify_volume):
* src/delete.c (move_archive):
Let mtioseek worry about mtio.
* src/common.h (archive_stat): New global, replacing ar_dev and
ar_ino. All uses changed.
* src/delete.c (move_archive): Check for integer overflow.
Also report overflow if the archive position would go negative.
* src/system.c: Include system-ioctl.h, for MTIOCTOP etc.
(mtioseek): New function, which also checks for integer overflow.
(sys_save_archive_dev_ino): Remove.
(archive_stat): Now
(sys_get_archive_stat): Also initialize mtioseekable_archive.
(sys_file_is_archive): Don’t return true if the archive is /dev/null
since it’s not a problem in that case.
(sys_detect_dev_null_output): Cache dev_null_stat.
doc: omit MS-DOS mentions in doc
It’s really FAT32 we’re worried about now, not MS-DOS.
And doschk is no longer a GNU program.
Paul Eggert [Sun, 24 Jul 2022 23:18:03 +0000 (16:18 -0700)]
Avoid unlikely crash when xasprintf returns 0
Problem caught by GCC 12.
* src/tar.c (easprintf): New static function, which never returns
a null pointer. All uses of xasprintf replaced by uses of this
function.
Paul Eggert [Sun, 24 Jul 2022 18:44:12 +0000 (11:44 -0700)]
Adjust to Gnulib bootstrap revamp
* autogen.sh, autopull.sh, bootstrap-funclib.sh:
New files, copied from gnulib/top.
* bootstrap: Copy from gnulib/top/bootstrap (as opposed
to copying from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap, as we used to).
* bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_post_pull_hook)
(bootstrap_post_import_hook): New functions.
Move commands into these functions as needed.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:02:54 +0000 (17:02 -0700)]
Avoid EOVERFLOW problems in some symlink tests
* src/extract.c (is_directory_link): New arg ST. Caller changed.
(is_directory_link, open_output_file):
Use readlinkat, not fstatat, to determine whether a string
names a symlink. This avoids EOVERFLOW issues.
(extract_dir): Avoid duplicate calls to fstatat when
keep_directory_symlink_option && fstatat_flags == 0
and the file is a symlink to an existing file.
Paul Eggert [Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:51:35 +0000 (17:51 -0700)]
Update to current Autoconf & Gettext
* acinclude.m4, configure.ac:
Use AS_HELP_STRING, not AC_HELP_STRING.
* bootstrap: Sync from Gnulib.
* configure.ac: Require Autoconf 2.71 and Gettext 0.21.
Use AC_PROG_CC, not AC_PROG_CC_STDC.
Prefer AC_COMPILE_IFELSE to AC_TRY_COMPILE.
Use AC_CONFIG_FILES.
* gnulib.modules: Use gettext-h, not gettext.
James Abbatiello [Sat, 11 Jun 2022 01:25:13 +0000 (18:25 -0700)]
tar: fix race condition
Problem reported in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-03/msg00000.html
* src/extract.c (make_directories): Retry the file creation as
long as the directory exists, regardless of whether tar itself
created the directory.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes
Paul Eggert [Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:09:34 +0000 (22:09 -0700)]
tar: fix race condition
Problem reported by James Abbatiello in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-03/msg00000.html
* src/extract.c (make_directories): Do not assume that when
mkdirat fails with errno == EEXIST that there is an existing file
that can be statted. It could be a dangling symlink. Instead,
wait until the end and stat it.
Paul Eggert [Thu, 9 Jun 2022 22:50:06 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Warn “file changed as we read it” less often
* src/create.c (dump_file0): Remove an fstatat call that is
unnecessary because the file wasn’t read so we can treat the first
fstatat as atomic. Warn “file changed” when the file’s size,
mtime, user ID, group ID, or mode changes, instead of when the
file’s size or ctime changes. Also, when such a change happens,
do not change exit status if --ignore-failed-read. Finally, don’t
attempt to change atime back if it didn’t change.
Paul Eggert [Tue, 3 May 2022 22:25:03 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
doc: fix abrupt sentence in HTML
Typo reported by Jackson Dougherty in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-05/msg00000.html
* doc/tar.texi: Don’t assume that tex and info are the only two
formats.
Paul Eggert [Wed, 16 Feb 2022 01:40:34 +0000 (17:40 -0800)]
tar: revamp "file is the archive" diagnostic
* src/create.c (dump_file0): For clarity, change diagnostic
wording from "file is the archive; not dumped" to "archive cannot
contain itself; not dumped". All test cases and documentation changed.