bug-tar
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] xattr support on Linux
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:24:19 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 
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?
reply via email to
[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]