Improvements based on commets by George Robbins <grr@shandakor.tharsis.com>

 - ``tar cf'' will now just exit instead of waiting for a file list
   on stdin.  The old behavior should be re-enabled with an option.
 - Better wording in tar man page for -o and -w

diff --git a/bin/pax/options.c b/bin/pax/options.c
index eccfd4d..1303665 100644 (file)
--- a/bin/pax/options.c
+++ b/bin/pax/options.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*     $OpenBSD: options.c,v 1.18 1997/04/02 17:48:53 millert Exp $    */
+/*     $OpenBSD: options.c,v 1.19 1997/04/04 20:54:50 millert Exp $    */
 /*     $NetBSD: options.c,v 1.6 1996/03/26 23:54:18 mrg Exp $  */
 
 /*-
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 #if 0
 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)options.c  8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94";
 #else
-static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: options.c,v 1.18 1997/04/02 17:48:53 millert Exp $";
+static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: options.c,v 1.19 1997/04/04 20:54:50 millert Exp $";
 #endif
 #endif /* not lint */
 
@@ -782,6 +782,10 @@ tar_options(argc, argv)
        argc -= optind;
        argv += optind;
 
+       /* Traditional tar behaviour (pax wants to read filelist from stdin) */
+       if (argc == 0)
+               exit(0);
+
        /*
         * if we are writing (ARCHIVE) specify tar, otherwise run like pax
         */

diff --git a/bin/pax/tar.1 b/bin/pax/tar.1
index 5523f4e..891d740 100644 (file)
--- a/bin/pax/tar.1
+++ b/bin/pax/tar.1
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"    $OpenBSD: tar.1,v 1.6 1997/03/26 01:20:45 millert Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: tar.1,v 1.7 1997/04/04 20:54:52 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 11, 1996
 .Dt TAR 1
@@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ or directories.
 .It Fl m
 Do not preserve modification time.
 .It Fl o
-Do not create directories.
+Don't write directory information that the older (V7) style
+.Nm tar
+is enable to decode.
 .It Fl p
 Preserve user id, group id, file mode, access and modification
-times.
+times if possible.  The user id and group id will only bet set
+if the user is the superuser (unless these values correspond
+to the user's user and group ids).
 .It Fl s Ar replstr
 Modify the file or archive member names specified by the
 .Ar pattern
@@ -150,7 +154,10 @@ are not selected and will be skipped.
 .It Fl v
 Verbose operation mode.
 .It Fl w
-Interactively rename files.
+Interactively rename files.  This option causes
+.Nm tar
+to prompt the user for the filename to use when storing or
+extracting files in an archive.
 .It Fl z
 Compress archive using gzip.
 .It Fl C Ar directory