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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml | 27 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml index f81e36f810..7f25f5b7bc 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml @@ -35,10 +35,11 @@ <modulesummary>Unix 'tar' utility for reading and writing tar archives</modulesummary> <description> <p>The <c>erl_tar</c> module archives and extract files to and from - a tar file. The tar file format is the POSIX extended tar file format - specified in IEEE Std 1003.1 and ISO/IEC 9945-1. That is the same - format as used by <c>tar</c> program on Solaris, but is not the same - as used by the GNU tar program.</p> + a tar file. <c>erl_tar</c> supports the <c>ustar</c> format + (IEEE Std 1003.1 and ISO/IEC 9945-1). All modern <c>tar</c> + programs (including GNU tar) can read this format. To ensure that + that GNU tar produces a tar file that <c>erl_tar</c> can read, + give the <c>--format=ustar</c> option to GNU tar.</p> <p>By convention, the name of a tar file should end in "<c>.tar</c>". To abide to the convention, you'll need to add "<c>.tar</c>" yourself to the name.</p> @@ -65,6 +66,20 @@ </description> <section> + <title>UNICODE SUPPORT</title> + <p>If <seealso + marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso> + returns <c>utf8</c>, path names will be encoded in UTF-8 when + creating tar files and path names will be assumed to be encoded in + UTF-8 when extracting tar files.</p> + + <p>If <seealso + marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0">file:native_name_encoding/0</seealso> + returns <c>latin1</c>, no translation of path names will be + done.</p> + </section> + + <section> <title>LIMITATIONS</title> <p>For maximum compatibility, it is safe to archive files with names up to 100 characters in length. Such tar files can generally be @@ -112,8 +127,8 @@ <fsummary>Add a file to an open tar file</fsummary> <type> <v>TarDescriptor = term()</v> - <v>FilenameOrBin = Filename()|binary()</v> - <v>Filename = filename()()</v> + <v>FilenameOrBin = filename()|binary()</v> + <v>Filename = filename()</v> <v>NameInArchive = filename()</v> <v>Options = [Option]</v> <v>Option = dereference|verbose</v> |