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authorLars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de>2010-10-29 09:08:19 (GMT)
committerLars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de>2010-10-29 09:08:19 (GMT)
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Add read support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse
extensions. Thus, in addition to GNUTYPE_SPARSE headers, sparse information in pax headers created by GNU tar can now be decoded. All three formats 0.0, 0.1 and 1.0 are supported. On filesystems that support this, holes in files are now restored whenever a sparse member is extracted.
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@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
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+- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse
+ extensions and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
+
- Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
- Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name