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Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux


From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:39:11 +0200
User-agent: 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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