History log of /freebsd-current/bin/pax/pax.1
Revision Date Author Comments
# 90aea514 23-Nov-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

bin: Remove ancient SCCS tags.

Remove ancient SCCS tags from the tree, automated scripting, with two
minor fixup to keep things compiling. All the common forms in the tree
were removed with a perl script.

Sponsored by: Netflix


# b2c76c41 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# d05e43bc 19-Oct-2022 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>

pax: update date parsing code (from OpenBSD)

Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
MFC after: 1 week


# 825225e5 14-Aug-2022 Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>

For man page references found in ports, indicate the respective port.


# 64e8790d 29-Dec-2018 Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>

Add a note that the use of -B option does not guarantee a size of fragment
if -z option also used.

Recommend the use of zip(1) if compressed files of predictable size needed.

PR: docs/41089
Submitted by: Sevan Janiyan
Reported by: areilly@bigpond.net.au

While here, pet igor

Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18686


# fbbd9655 28-Feb-2017 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Renumber copyright clause 4

Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.

Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96


# 3ea98e05 29-Feb-2016 Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

dump(1) -> dump(8).

MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# d6e1f8d7 17-Mar-2015 Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>

Implement pax -O option to permit limiting a PAX archive to a single volume.

-O Force the archive to be one volume. If a volume ends prematurely, pax will
not prompt for a new volume.

PR: 198481
Submitted by: Sevan Janiyan
Reviewed by: allanjude (doc)


# e26f6566 21-Dec-2013 Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>

Document the lack of chflags support in pax(1)

PR: docs/135516
Submitted by: arundel (based on)
Approved by: gjb (mentor)


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# 3b8199db 28-Aug-2010 Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>

Touch the man page date after updating the ustar limitations.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# cd14b457 29-Aug-2010 Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>

Correct an out-by-one error when earlying out ustar filenames that
are too long. Filenames escaping this test are caught later on,
so the bug doesn't cause any breakage.

Document the correct ustar limitations in pax. As I have no access
to the IEEE 1003.2 spec, I can only assume that the limitations
imposed are in fact correct.

Add regression tests for the filename limitations imposed by pax.

MFC after: 3 weeks


# fe0506d7 09-Mar-2010 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Create the altix project branch. The altix project will add support
for the SGI Altix 350 to FreeBSD/ia64. The hardware used for porting
is a two-module system, consisting of a base compute module and a
CPU expansion module. SGI's NUMAFlex architecture can be an excellent
platform to test CPU affinity and NUMA-aware features in FreeBSD.


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# 9badf57f 17-Sep-2006 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Markup fixes.


# 6ff45b4e 10-May-2006 Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>

Fix the wording about the blocksize (-b) parameter. The existing
wording makes it look like pax archives > 32256 bytes are not
POSIX-compliant! Correct this to state that pax archives with
block sizes > 32256 are not POSIX compliant...and settle our fears.

PR: docs/97059
Reviewed by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>


# 6fca4c7c 16-Jan-2005 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Add the new standard EXIT STATUS section where appropriate.
Sort standard sections in the (documented) preferred order.


# 9ddb49cb 10-Jan-2005 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

/*- or .\"- or #- to begin license clauses.


# 128dc4a2 02-Jul-2004 Tim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>

Document missing multibyte character handling in utilities specified
by POSIX.


# 1171aedc 02-Jul-2004 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Deal with double whitespace.


# eccea571 02-Jul-2004 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


# 6195fb41 06-Apr-2004 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Remove clause 3 from the UCB licenses.

OK'ed by: imp, core


# 2e79837f 10-Jan-2003 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Make the "tarcp" example more direct.


# e7ed0f64 06-Oct-2002 Tim J. Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.org>

/dev/sa0 is the default tape device, not /dev/rst0.


# 7d971bbf 21-Aug-2002 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

s/filesystem/file system/ as discussed on -developers


# ebd43244 15-May-2002 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

Consistancy check s/file system/filesystem/

Reviewed by: brian


# f4e4fcd3 20-Apr-2002 Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>

Use `The .Nm utility'


# 753d686d 14-Aug-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: s/BSD/.Bx/ where appropriate.


# 94ba280c 10-Aug-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: join split punctuation to macro calls.


# 7ebcc426 15-Jul-2001 Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# caa2db3b 10-Jul-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


# 70d51341 09-Jul-2001 Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: remove extraneous .Pp before and/or after .Sh.


# 72272f83 08-May-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: sort xrefs.


# b1787dec 08-May-2001 Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>

Sync up with OpenBSD. Too many changes to note, but the major features
are:
* Implement cpio compatibility mode when pax is invoked as cpio
* Extend tar compatibility mode to cover many of the GNU tar single-letter
options (bzip2 mode, aka -y/-j is not present in OpenBSD). When
invoked as tar, pax is now full-featured enough for use by the ports
collection to extract distfiles and create packages.
* Many bug fixes to the operation of pax and the tar compatibility modes
* Code fixes for things like correct string buffer termination.

I tried to preserve existing FreeBSD fixes to this utility; please let me
know if I have inadvertently spammed something.


# 1192d531 04-May-2001 Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>

Add -z flag to pax to allow gzipping of archive output. Add -z and -Z (gzip
and compress) to pax when used in tar mode (invoked as 'tar') for
compatibility with GNU tar.

bzip2 functionality for further GNU tar compatibility will be added at a
later date.

Note in the manpage that -z is non-standard.

Obtained from: OpenBSD
Reviewed by: -hackers
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 47dec781 13-Feb-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: use the default ``file ...'' feature of the .Ar macro.


# d0353b83 01-Feb-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes.


# 1586940e 18-Dec-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# be8b1497 20-Nov-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# 4e86fcac 02-Mar-2000 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>

Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.


# bef84d6b 01-Mar-2000 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


# 2a456239 27-Aug-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 46be34b9 08-May-1999 Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>

Various spelling/formatting changes.

Submitted by: Philippe Charnier <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>


# 9e74704e 31-May-1998 Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>

Clarify the example a bit.

PR: 6801
Reviewed by: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>


# c9a8d1f4 15-May-1998 Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>

Correct use of .Nm. Add rcsid.


# 05e61fd5 19-Mar-1998 Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>

.Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS
Use .An/.Aq


# b97fa2ef 22-Feb-1997 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 1130b656 14-Jan-1997 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# bdc95502 16-Aug-1995 Nate Williams <nate@FreeBSD.org>

Fix possible FS corruption caused by extra parameter to pax.
oo
Turns out, it's pretty important if you use PAX for backup. In the man
page for PAX, there is an error (OK, we could call it a "potentially
catastrophic incompleteness"). It reads:

> The command:
>
> pax -r -v -f filename
>
> gives the verbose table of contents for an archive stored in filename.

Yup, it does do that. With a side effect: it also _replaces_ all the
files that come in from the archive. As is my custom, I did my
backup-validation real soon after the backup was written. Precisely
because I've seen the same sort of thing happen on other systems. So all
that file-restoring didn't do a lot of damage. Probably helped my
fragmentation somewhat (aha, an online defragger?) It did confuse one
hapless user, who lost an email message he _knew_ he hadn't deleted.
Apparently the system restored the file as of just before that critical
message came in.

The correct entry should read:

> The command:
>
> pax -v -f filename
>




> gives the verbose table of contents for an archive stored in filename.


Submitted by: John Beckett <jbeckett@southern.edu> via the BSDI mailing list


# 89730b29 23-Sep-1994 David Greenman <dg@FreeBSD.org>

Added $Id$


# 4b88c807 26-May-1994 Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>

BSD 4.4 Lite bin Sources