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+// Copyright 2016 The LUCI Authors. All rights reserved. |
+// Use of this source code is governed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 |
+// that can be found in the LICENSE file. |
+ |
+// Package ar implements access to ar archives. ar is probably the simplest |
+// format that standard tools under Linux support. |
+// |
+// The base ar format only supports files which are 16 characters long. There |
+// are multiple methods for supporting longer file names. |
+// |
+// This package only supports the "BSD variant" as the filename is stored allow |
+// "streaming" support (rather than the Sys V / GNU variant which requires |
+// building a symbol table). |
+// |
+// References: |
+// * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_(Unix) |
+package ar |