Changelog

Upcoming Changes

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.

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