tarextract

Overview ¶

Package tarextract extracts a PAX tar (as produced by tarexport) into a directory, restoring permissions, ownership (when running as root), extended attributes (best-effort), nanosecond mtimes, symlinks, fifos, and device nodes. Directory permissions and mtimes are applied after all members are written, so a read-only or past-dated directory does not block writing its children — and creating children does not disturb a restored directory's mtime.