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/* GNU tar Archive Format description. */
/* If OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY is not zero, tar produces archives which, by
default, are readable by older versions of GNU tar. This can be
overriden by using --posix; in this case, POSIXLY_CORRECT in environment
may be set for enforcing stricter conformance. If OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
is zero or undefined, tar will eventually produces archives which, by
default, POSIX compatible; then either using --posix or defining
POSIXLY_CORRECT enforces stricter conformance.
This #define will disappear in a few years. FP, June 1995. */
#define OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY 1
/*---------------------------------------------.
| `tar' Header Block, from POSIX 1003.1-1990. |
`---------------------------------------------*/
/* POSIX header. */
struct posix_header
@{ /* byte offset */
char name[100]; /* 0 */
char mode[8]; /* 100 */
char uid[8]; /* 108 */
char gid[8]; /* 116 */
char size[12]; /* 124 */
char mtime[12]; /* 136 */
char chksum[8]; /* 148 */
char typeflag; /* 156 */
char linkname[100]; /* 157 */
char magic[6]; /* 257 */
char version[2]; /* 263 */
char uname[32]; /* 265 */
char gname[32]; /* 297 */
char devmajor[8]; /* 329 */
char devminor[8]; /* 337 */
char prefix[155]; /* 345 */
/* 500 */
@};
#define TMAGIC "ustar" /* ustar and a null */
#define TMAGLEN 6
#define TVERSION "00" /* 00 and no null */
#define TVERSLEN 2
/* Values used in typeflag field. */
#define REGTYPE '0' /* regular file */
#define AREGTYPE '\0' /* regular file */
#define LNKTYPE '1' /* link */
#define SYMTYPE '2' /* reserved */
#define CHRTYPE '3' /* character special */
#define BLKTYPE '4' /* block special */
#define DIRTYPE '5' /* directory */
#define FIFOTYPE '6' /* FIFO special */
#define CONTTYPE '7' /* reserved */
/* Bits used in the mode field, values in octal. */
#define TSUID 04000 /* set UID on execution */
#define TSGID 02000 /* set GID on execution */
#define TSVTX 01000 /* reserved */
/* file permissions */
#define TUREAD 00400 /* read by owner */
#define TUWRITE 00200 /* write by owner */
#define TUEXEC 00100 /* execute/search by owner */
#define TGREAD 00040 /* read by group */
#define TGWRITE 00020 /* write by group */
#define TGEXEC 00010 /* execute/search by group */
#define TOREAD 00004 /* read by other */
#define TOWRITE 00002 /* write by other */
#define TOEXEC 00001 /* execute/search by other */
/*-------------------------------------.
| `tar' Header Block, GNU extensions. |
`-------------------------------------*/
/* In GNU tar, SYMTYPE is for to symbolic links, and CONTTYPE is for
contiguous files, so maybe disobeying the `reserved' comment in POSIX
header description. I suspect these were meant to be used this way, and
should not have really been `reserved' in the published standards. */
/* *BEWARE* *BEWARE* *BEWARE* that the following information is still
boiling, and may change. Even if the OLDGNU format description should be
accurate, the so-called GNU format is not yet fully decided. It is
surely meant to use only extensions allowed by POSIX, but the sketch
below repeats some ugliness from the OLDGNU format, which should rather
go away. Sparse files should be saved in such a way that they do *not*
require two passes at archive creation time. Huge files get some POSIX
fields to overflow, alternate solutions have to be sought for this. */
/* Descriptor for a single file hole. */
struct sparse
@{ /* byte offset */
char offset[12]; /* 0 */
char numbytes[12]; /* 12 */
/* 24 */
@};
/* Sparse files are not supported in POSIX ustar format. For sparse files
with a POSIX header, a GNU extra header is provided which holds overall
sparse information and a few sparse descriptors. When an old GNU header
replaces both the POSIX header and the GNU extra header, it holds some
sparse descriptors too. Whether POSIX or not, if more sparse descriptors
are still needed, they are put into as many successive sparse headers as
necessary. The following constants tell how many sparse descriptors fit
in each kind of header able to hold them. */
#define SPARSES_IN_EXTRA_HEADER 16
#define SPARSES_IN_OLDGNU_HEADER 4
#define SPARSES_IN_SPARSE_HEADER 21
/* The GNU extra header contains some information GNU tar needs, but not
foreseen in POSIX header format. It is only used after a POSIX header
(and never with old GNU headers), and immediately follows this POSIX
header, when typeflag is a letter rather than a digit, so signaling a GNU
extension. */
struct extra_header
@{ /* byte offset */
char atime[12]; /* 0 */
char ctime[12]; /* 12 */
char offset[12]; /* 24 */
char realsize[12]; /* 36 */
char longnames[4]; /* 48 */
char unused_pad1[68]; /* 52 */
struct sparse sp[SPARSES_IN_EXTRA_HEADER];
/* 120 */
char isextended; /* 504 */
/* 505 */
@};
/* Extension header for sparse files, used immediately after the GNU extra
header, and used only if all sparse information cannot fit into that
extra header. There might even be many such extension headers, one after
the other, until all sparse information has been recorded. */
struct sparse_header
@{ /* byte offset */
struct sparse sp[SPARSES_IN_SPARSE_HEADER];
/* 0 */
char isextended; /* 504 */
/* 505 */
@};
/* The old GNU format header conflicts with POSIX format in such a way that
POSIX archives may fool old GNU tar's, and POSIX tar's might well be
fooled by old GNU tar archives. An old GNU format header uses the space
used by the prefix field in a POSIX header, and cumulates information
normally found in a GNU extra header. With an old GNU tar header, we
never see any POSIX header nor GNU extra header. Supplementary sparse
headers are allowed, however. */
struct oldgnu_header
@{ /* byte offset */
char unused_pad1[345]; /* 0 */
char atime[12]; /* 345 */
char ctime[12]; /* 357 */
char offset[12]; /* 369 */
char longnames[4]; /* 381 */
char unused_pad2; /* 385 */
struct sparse sp[SPARSES_IN_OLDGNU_HEADER];
/* 386 */
char isextended; /* 482 */
char realsize[12]; /* 483 */
/* 495 */
@};
/* OLDGNU_MAGIC uses both magic and version fields, which are contiguous.
Found in an archive, it indicates an old GNU header format, which will be
hopefully become obsolescent. With OLDGNU_MAGIC, uname and gname are
valid, though the header is not truly POSIX conforming. */
#define OLDGNU_MAGIC "ustar " /* 7 chars and a null */
/* The standards committee allows only capital A through capital Z for
user-defined expansion. */
/* This is a dir entry that contains the names of files that were in the
dir at the time the dump was made. */
#define GNUTYPE_DUMPDIR 'D'
/* Identifies the *next* file on the tape as having a long linkname. */
#define GNUTYPE_LONGLINK 'K'
/* Identifies the *next* file on the tape as having a long name. */
#define GNUTYPE_LONGNAME 'L'
/* This is the continuation of a file that began on another volume. */
#define GNUTYPE_MULTIVOL 'M'
/* For storing filenames that do not fit into the main header. */
#define GNUTYPE_NAMES 'N'
/* This is for sparse files. */
#define GNUTYPE_SPARSE 'S'
/* This file is a tape/volume header. Ignore it on extraction. */
#define GNUTYPE_VOLHDR 'V'
/*--------------------------------------.
| tar Header Block, overall structure. |
`--------------------------------------*/
/* tar files are made in basic blocks of this size. */
#define BLOCKSIZE 512
enum archive_format
@{
DEFAULT_FORMAT, /* format to be decided later */
V7_FORMAT, /* old V7 tar format */
OLDGNU_FORMAT, /* GNU format as per before tar 1.12 */
POSIX_FORMAT, /* restricted, pure POSIX format */
GNU_FORMAT /* POSIX format with GNU extensions */
@};
union block
@{
char buffer[BLOCKSIZE];
struct posix_header header;
struct extra_header extra_header;
struct oldgnu_header oldgnu_header;
struct sparse_header sparse_header;
@};
/* End of Format description. */
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