Obtained from:	Joerg Sonnenberger

for the cpio formats.

Thanks to: Rudolf Marek
Approved by: re@

  * use "AR_GNU" as the format name instead of AR_SVR4 (it's what everyone is going to call it anyway)
  * Simplify numeric parsing to unsigned (none of the numeric values should ever be negative); don't run off end of numeric fields.
  * Finish parsing the common header fields before the next I/O request (which might dump the contents)
  * Be smarter about format guessing and trimming filenames.
  * Most of the magic values are only used in one place, so just inline them.
  * Many more comments.
  * Be smarter about handling damaged entries; return something reasonable.
  * Call it a "filename table" instead of a "string table"
  * Update tests.

Enable selection of 'ar', 'arbsd', and 'argnu' formats by name
(this allows bsdtar to create ar format archives).

The 'ar' writer still needs some work; it should reject
entries that aren't regular files and should probably also
strip leading paths from filenames.

a vanilla 2-clause BSD license, but somehow some confusing
extra verbage get copied from somewhere.

Also, update the copyright dates to 2007 for all of the files.

Prompted by: several questions about what those extra words really mean

  * Actually use the HAVE_<header>_H macros to conditionally include
    system headers.  They've been defined for a long time, but only
    used in a few places.  Now they're used pretty consistently
    throughout.
  * Fill in a lot of missing casts for conversions from void*.
    Although Standard C doesn't require this, some people have been
    trying to use C++ compilers with this code, and they do require it.

Bit-for-bit, the compiled object files are identical, except for
one assert() whose line number changed, so I'm pretty confident I
didn't break anything.  ;-)

which is really, really dumb and just going to cause confusion among
people who understand that "ustar" is also a POSIX standard tar format.)

Portability: Thanks to Juergen Lock, libarchive now compiles cleanly
on Linux.  Along the way, I cleaned up a lot of error return codes and
reorganized some code to simplify conditional compilation of certain
sections.

Bug fixes:
  * pax format now actually stores filenames that are 101-154
    characters long.
  * pax format now allows newline characters in extended attributes
    (this fixes a long-standing bug in ACL handling)
  * mtime/atime are now restored for directories
  * directory list is now sorted prior to fix-up to permit
    correct restore of non-writable dir heirarchies

What it is:
   A library for reading and writing various streaming archive
   formats, especially tar and cpio.  Being a library, it should
   be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any
   other place that needs to read or write such archives.

Features:
  * Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format.
  * Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats.
  * Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format
    that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats.
  * BSD license

Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for
  encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style
  questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement.

Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and
  the library could always use more testing.  Feedback eagerly solicited.