archive/tar: Make Reader and Writer more closely follow io.Reader and io.Writer inter...

There's no functional change here. io gives the Read and Write methods byte slice arguments, but tar called them uint8. It's the same thing, but I think this is clearer and it matches what other packages do.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/157099

diff --git a/src/pkg/archive/tar/reader.go b/src/pkg/archive/tar/reader.go
index 654b5b03d9587ffb60e2e221df278a6d05769a53..74057401f8e98ae48a643feebcd8a3122d019574 100644 (file)
--- a/src/pkg/archive/tar/reader.go
+++ b/src/pkg/archive/tar/reader.go
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ func (tr *Reader) readHeader() *Header {
 // Read reads from the current entry in the tar archive.
 // It returns 0, nil when it reaches the end of that entry,
 // until Next is called to advance to the next entry.
-func (tr *Reader) Read(b []uint8) (n int, err os.Error) {
+func (tr *Reader) Read(b []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
        if int64(len(b)) > tr.nb {
                b = b[0:tr.nb]
        }

diff --git a/src/pkg/archive/tar/writer.go b/src/pkg/archive/tar/writer.go
index 2c207d618f163aa9e993975044a86b73246ade2a..6bb4acdf4031b2340e5ac14be6a05b0e3910aba3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/pkg/archive/tar/writer.go
+++ b/src/pkg/archive/tar/writer.go
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ func (tw *Writer) WriteHeader(hdr *Header) os.Error {
 // Write writes to the current entry in the tar archive.
 // Write returns the error ErrWriteTooLong if more than
 // hdr.Size bytes are written after WriteHeader.
-func (tw *Writer) Write(b []uint8) (n int, err os.Error) {
+func (tw *Writer) Write(b []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
        overwrite := false;
        if int64(len(b)) > tw.nb {
                b = b[0:tw.nb];