Re: [Linux 2.6 PATCH] support for Hurd ext2 format extensions

[Roland McGrath]

> If I just tar up /dev/fd and/or /dev/zero as well as an arbitrary file
> afterwards, I get the following:
> 
> star: Numerical result out of range. Cannot setxattr for 'bin/true'.
> 
> If I (addtionally to one of those two device files above) tar up one of
> /dev/tty[a-z]*, I get instead:
> 
> star: Operation not supported. Cannot setxattr for 'bin/true'.
> 
> I did not have the time to run star through gdb yet. If you think that
> would be worthwhile, I can do it of course.

Yeah, please figure out exactly what the setxattr calls that fail are,
and check any getxattr et al calls to make sure their results look sane.