Ttar 2.4 KB freestanding TAR archiver written in C, no Libc

What it does

ttar (tiny tar) - this is utility, written in C and built on a freestanding syscall-only approach without libc, external libraries, and unnecessary dependencies. The utility adheres to the philosophy of "one tool - one task". Direct use of Linux calls, and rejection of unnecessary functionality, gave a binary size of 2.4K for the arm64 architecture. I created it because I'm a purist when it comes to tiny utilities. I also hope it will be useful to someone, or perhaps inspire someone to take up the same craft. About Archiver tar archiver 2.4K on pure C freestanding without dependencies. Support: arm64, arm-v7, mips, riscv, x86,from github.com

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