Pavel Raiskup <[email protected]> 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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
