Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.30 released [stable]

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 6:43:46 PM CET Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 1:41:38 PM CET Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > There still is a --acl option but no support for ACLs.
> >
> > There's no support for NTFS/NFSv4 ACLs in GNU tar, to un-confuse the
> > statement.
> 
> But the withdrawn POSIX.4 ACL interface proposal does not seem to be 
> supported 
> either.
> 
> I am on a system that sports both - depending on the underlying filesystem.

Has ./configure detected the ACL support?

...
checking for library containing acl_get_file... -lacl
checking for library containing acl_get_fd... none required
checking for library containing acl_set_file... none required
checking for library containing acl_set_fd... none required
checking for library containing acl_to_text... none required
checking for library containing acl_from_text... none required
checking for library containing acl_delete_def_file... none required
checking for library containing acl_free... none required
...

Pavel

> BTW: With regard to the NTFS/NFSv4 ACLs, I recently enhanced star to use a 
> more 
> compact ACL format in this case.
> 
> Here is what the old definition was: 
> 
> 30 atime=1383676106.725425278
> 30 ctime=1383676333.651257344
> 30 mtime=1383676106.725425278
> 324 
> SCHILY.acl.ace=group:daemon:rwx-----------:-------:allow:12,user:root:rwx-----------:-------:allow:0,owner@:--x-----------:-------:deny,owner@:rw-p---A-W-Co-:-------:allow,group@:-wxp----------:-------:deny,group@:r-------------:-------:allow,everyone@:-wxp---A-W-Co-:-------:deny,everyone@:r-----a-R-c--s:-------:allow
> 23 SCHILY.dev=47775747
> 17 SCHILY.ino=11
> 18 SCHILY.nlink=1
> 27 SCHILY.filetype=regular
> 
> and here is the new compact format:
> 
> 30 atime=1383676106.725425278
> 30 ctime=1383676333.651257344
> 30 mtime=1383676106.725425278
> 186 
> SCHILY.acl.ace=group:daemon:rwx::allow:12,user:root:rwx::allow:0,owner@:x::deny,owner@:rwpAWCo::allow,group@:wxp::deny,group@:r::allow,everyone@:wxpAWCo::deny,everyone@:raRcs::allow
> 23 SCHILY.dev=47775747
> 17 SCHILY.ino=11
> 18 SCHILY.nlink=1
> 27 SCHILY.filetype=regular
> 
> that usually fits in a single 512 byte block.
> 
> Jörg
> 
>