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Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux |
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Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:39:11 +0200 |
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nail 11.22 3/20/05 |
Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:
> > FWIW, both star and bsdtar support xattrs on Linux.
> >
> > It would be nice if GNU tar were compatible with those existing
> > implementations.
>
> Thanks Tim, yes -- xattr-patched GNU tar would be unable to extract
> extended attributes from archives created by BSD tar now. In BSD tar
> pax headers you are using base64 encoding for xattr values *but* in
> different namespace --> so it will be very easy to allow GNU tar unpack
> also BSD tar archives. I missed that fact and I'll address that later.
Could you please explain this?
If I understand you correctly, this seems to mean that bsdtar is not compatible
to star.
Jörg
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- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Tim Kientzle, 2012/10/03
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Joerg Schilling, 2012/10/04
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Tim Kientzle, 2012/10/05
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Joerg Schilling, 2012/10/05
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Joerg Schilling, 2012/10/05
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Tim Kientzle, 2012/10/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Pavel Raiskup, 2012/10/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Joerg Schilling, 2012/10/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Pavel Raiskup, 2012/10/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Joerg Schilling, 2012/10/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux,
Joerg Schilling <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Joerg Schilling, 2012/10/04
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Pavel Raiskup, 2012/10/04
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Paul Eggert, 2012/10/04
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Ondrej Vasik, 2012/10/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, James Antill, 2012/10/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Paul Eggert, 2012/10/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Pavel Raiskup, 2012/10/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Pavel Raiskup, 2012/10/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Paul Eggert, 2012/10/08
- Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux, Pavel Raiskup, 2012/10/09