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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..796d153 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +*~ +*.o +*.a +*.so +*.gch +*.exe +*.lib.a +Makefile +/bin +/build +/lib diff --git a/COPYING.TPAX b/COPYING.TPAX new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3521193 --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYING.TPAX @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +/*****************************************************************************/ +/* */ +/* tpax: a topological pax implementation */ +/* */ +/* Copyright (C) 2020 Z. Gilboa */ +/* */ +/* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify */ +/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */ +/* the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or */ +/* (at your option) version 3 of the License. */ +/* */ +/* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, */ +/* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of */ +/* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the */ +/* GNU General Public License for more details. */ +/* */ +/* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License */ +/* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ +/* */ +/*****************************************************************************/ @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +tpax: a topological pax implementation. +--------------------------------------- + +This project has the twofold aim of: + +a) providing a standards-compliant pax(1) implementation. +b) providing a means for the creation of reproducible ustar archives. + +In order to accomplish the latter aim, tpax defines and accepts as +a format argument the ``rustar'' (reproducible ustar) format. + +A reproducible ustar archive is an archive conforming to posix ustar +interchange format specification that specially handles the uid, gid, +uname, gname, name, and prefix fields, specifically in the following +manner: + +* the `uid' and `gid' fields consist of 8 zero ('0') characters each. +* the `gname' and `uname' fields consist of 32 null characters each. +* the `name' and `prefix' fields are populated as follows: +- if a path name (not including the terminall null-character) can fit + in the `name' field alone (that is, when strlen(pathname) <= 100), + then only the `name' field shall be used. +- otherwise, the name field shall be used for as few directory elements + as possible, but not less that one directory element (namely the last + element, also known as the path's base name), and the `prefix' field + shall be used for the remainder of the path name. |