Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> 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 -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily