Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
What is the problem?
It may be that my previous mail is wrong....
So is the problem that the extended TAR headers use a length field for the
whole entry and the first occurrence of the character '=' is an indication for
the start of the value?
Given that these xattrs are just name=value tags, shouldn't '=' be foibidden
in xattrs?
- Are there really such tags?
- The original implementaion was developed together with SuSE, so why was
there no such problem for SuSE?
Jörg
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