posix/tar.h

   1 /* Extended tar format from POSIX.1.
   2    Copyright (C) 1992, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
   4    Written by David J. MacKenzie.
   5
   6    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   7    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
   8    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
   9    License, or (at your option) any later version.
  10
  11    The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  12    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  13    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  14    Library General Public License for more details.
  15
  16    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
  17    License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
  18    write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  19    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
  20
  21 #ifndef _TAR_H
  22 #define _TAR_H  1
  23
  24 /* A tar archive consists of 512-byte blocks.
  25    Each file in the archive has a header block followed by 0+ data blocks.
  26    Two blocks of NUL bytes indicate the end of the archive.  */
  27
  28 /* The fields of header blocks:
  29    All strings are stored as ISO 646 (approximately ASCII) strings.
  30
  31    Fields are numeric unless otherwise noted below; numbers are ISO 646
  32    representations of octal numbers, with leading zeros as needed.
  33
  34    linkname is only valid when typeflag==LNKTYPE.  It doesn't use prefix;
  35    files that are links to pathnames >100 chars long can not be stored
  36    in a tar archive.
  37
  38    If typeflag=={LNKTYPE,SYMTYPE,DIRTYPE} then size must be 0.
  39
  40    devmajor and devminor are only valid for typeflag=={BLKTYPE,CHRTYPE}.
  41
  42    chksum contains the sum of all 512 bytes in the header block,
  43    treating each byte as an 8-bit unsigned value and treating the
  44    8 bytes of chksum as blank characters.
  45
  46    uname and gname are used in preference to uid and gid, if those
  47    names exist locally.
  48
  49    Field Name   Byte Offset     Length in Bytes Field Type
  50    name         0               100             NUL-terminated if NUL fits
  51    mode         100             8
  52    uid          108             8
  53    gid          116             8
  54    size         124             12
  55    mtime        136             12
  56    chksum       148             8
  57    typeflag     156             1               see below
  58    linkname     157             100             NUL-terminated if NUL fits
  59    magic        257             6               must be TMAGIC (NUL term.)
  60    version      263             2               must be TVERSION
  61    uname        265             32              NUL-terminated
  62    gname        297             32              NUL-terminated
  63    devmajor     329             8
  64    devminor     337             8
  65    prefix       345             155             NUL-terminated if NUL fits
  66
  67    If the first character of prefix is '\0', the file name is name;
  68    otherwise, it is prefix/name.  Files whose pathnames don't fit in that
  69    length can not be stored in a tar archive.  */
  70
  71 /* The bits in mode: */
  72 #define TSUID   04000
  73 #define TSGID   02000
  74 #define TSVTX   01000
  75 #define TUREAD  00400
  76 #define TUWRITE 00200
  77 #define TUEXEC  00100
  78 #define TGREAD  00040
  79 #define TGWRITE 00020
  80 #define TGEXEC  00010
  81 #define TOREAD  00004
  82 #define TOWRITE 00002
  83 #define TOEXEC  00001
  84
  85 /* The values for typeflag:
  86    Values 'A'-'Z' are reserved for custom implementations.
  87    All other values are reserved for future POSIX.1 revisions.  */
  88
  89 #define REGTYPE         '0'     /* Regular file (preferred code).  */
  90 #define AREGTYPE        '\0'    /* Regular file (alternate code).  */
  91 #define LNKTYPE         '1'     /* Hard link.  */
  92 #define SYMTYPE         '2'     /* Symbolic link (hard if not supported).  */
  93 #define CHRTYPE         '3'     /* Character special.  */
  94 #define BLKTYPE         '4'     /* Block special.  */
  95 #define DIRTYPE         '5'     /* Directory.  */
  96 #define FIFOTYPE        '6'     /* Named pipe.  */
  97 #define CONTTYPE        '7'     /* Contiguous file */
  98  /* (regular file if not supported).  */
  99
 100 /* Contents of magic field and its length.  */
 101 #define TMAGIC  "ustar"
 102 #define TMAGLEN 6
 103
 104 /* Contents of the version field and its length.  */
 105 #define TVERSION        "00"
 106 #define TVERSLEN        2
 107
 108 #endif /* tar.h */