Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As mentioned there, I'm also missing documentation for
> > star's xattr format. In particular, I'm not clear how it handles
> > non-ASCII bytes in the attributes name.
>
> Thank you for this hint, I thought that I did document everything.....
Mmmmm, could you explain, what information you are missing in this text:
SCHILY.xattr.attr
A POSIX.1-2001 coded version of the Linux extended file
attributes. Linux extended file attributes are
name/value pairs. Every attribute name results in a
SCHILY.xattr.name tag and the value of the extended
attribute is used as the value of the POSIX.1-2001
header tag. Note that this way of coding is not port-
able across platforms. A version for BSD may be
created but Solaris includes far more features with
extended attribute files than Linux does.
A future version of star will implement a similar
method as the tar program on Solaris currently uses.
When this implementation is ready, the
SCHILY.xattr.name feature may be removed in favor of a
truly portable implementation that supports Solaris
also.
Jörg
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