Re: [Bug-tar] tar and file meta data....

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> 
>>  
>>> star has (a multi tar format tar prog from the 90's has had
>>> support for ACLS/extended attrs -- �
>>>    
>> 
>> Last I checked, Joerg only supported POSIX.1e ACLs with star.
>>  
> ----
>   Nep....supports extended attributes --for as long as he's supported 
> ACL's...at least
> in my exposure to it.

Apologies; I meant that he only supports one kind of ACLs.
Windows ACLs are very similar to NFS4 ACLs, which are
very different than POSIX.1e ACLs.

> 
> The rest...hey, I'm not asking for the world...(yet)....but getting it to 
> work for linux/cygwin/
> posix1e acls/extended attrs, would solve 60% of my problems w/tar...(since I 
> don't have
> a native 64-bit Win version now, it would be a bit of a stretch to ask for 
> that AND one that
> supports native win ACLS/ext-attrs(streams)...)...but that would a nice 
> future goal…

Actually, support for Windows ACLs is a goal of the
work I referred to earlier.  Since NFS4 ACLs
are essentially the same as Windows NTFS ACLs,
it should be pretty easy to extend the NFS4 ACL
implementation I described to interoperate
with Windows as well.

<sigh>  I just need to find time to finish the
generic portions of that code.

Tim