Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux

[Tim Kientzle]

On Oct 9, 2012, at 12:57 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 15:24 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 10/08/2012 08:52 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
>>> we are not able to store/restore extended attributes containing '='
>>> character in the keyword properly - same situation in star as our patch
>>> uses the same approach.
>> 
>> Can't we fix this by URL-encoding '=' and '%' when creating the tar file
>> and URL-decoding when extracting?  It sounds easy, but it's not done
>> by that patch, so what am I missing?
> 
> Yes, that seems to be OK solution.  I'll prepare patch today and I'll post
> it in the xattr-proposal thread.

bsdtar also URL-encodes any characters that
aren't printable ASCII.

This avoids any problems if a reader expects
the key name to be valid UTF-8.

Tim