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Changelog
Upcoming Changes
Version 1.7
Refactor the internal hash-map data structure.
Version 1.6
Enforce "safe-links" on extraction by ensuring every extracted symlink actually points to a file in the archive. Additionally any extracted symlinks that don't point to a valid destination is removed. This "enforce safe-links on extract" can be disabled with the "--no-safe-links" option.
Add "--preserve-symlinks" option that will verbatim store the symlinks' target. Not recommended if symlinks are pointing to absolute paths, which will be clobbered on extraction to a different directory unless if "--no-safe-links" is specified on extraction.
Version 1.5
Previous file-format-v1 implementation of "safe links" still created a symlink if a relative or absolute link existed in the file. This version fixes this, and prevents invalid symlinks from being created. (This check is only done if the bit-flag is set in the file as mentioned in the file-format spec for v1 files.)
Version 1.4
Do "safe links" behavior by default: symlinks pointing to outside of archived files (or invalid symlinks) should not be included in the archive, unless if the option "--no-safe-links" is specified. This is supported in both v0 and v1 file formats.
Version 1.3
Prevent simplearchiver
from busy-waiting during non-blocking IO by sleeping
in "EWOULDBLOCK" conditions. This results in less consumed cpu time by the
process, especially during compression.
Version 1.2
Proper handling of Ctrl+C (SIGINT). This prevents temporary files from persisting by doing a proper cleanup before stopping the program.
Version 1.1
More robust handling of de/compression process (handling SIGPIPE).
By default files are now pre-sorted by size before placed into chunks.
Add option to NOT pre-sort files by size.
Version 1.0
First release.
Features:
- Can specify any command as de/compressor when archiving.
- The commands must accept file data in stdin and output processed data to stdout.
- Can specify any command as decompressor when extracting to override the simple-archive's stored decompressor.
- Archives/compresses into chunks to reduce overhead by compressing per chunk instead of per file.
- Chunk size can be tweaked by a parameter setting.
- Can archive without de/compressor to be compressed separately.
- Supports pre-version-1 simple archiver file format (version 0).
- Archives regular files and symlinks.
- Keeps track of files and symlink permissions.
- Keeps track of file UID and GID (only set if extracting as root).
- Can be set to ignore absolute paths for symlinks by parameter setting.