On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:32:22 -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> diff --git a/src/xattrs.c b/src/xattrs.c
> index df65460..ed8d4e5 100644
> --- a/src/xattrs.c
> +++ b/src/xattrs.c
> @@ -636,6 +636,9 @@ xattrs_matches_mask (const char *kw, struct
> xattrs_mask_map *mm)
> return false;
> }
>
> +/* during extraction xattrs are checked against the user supplied
> + include/exclude mask but if no mask is given then only the user.*
> + domain is included as it may not be compatible across platforms. */
Should this last line be something like "...included, as other domains
may be incompatible across platforms and should not be applied without an
explicit user request." ?
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:15:05 -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> diff --git a/doc/tar.1 b/doc/tar.1
> index 18136cf..1bb9d30 100644
> --- a/doc/tar.1
> +++ b/doc/tar.1
> @@ -604,7 +604,9 @@ Enable SELinux context support.
> Disable SELinux context support.
> .TP
> .B \-\-xattrs
> -Enable extended attributes support.
> +Enable extended attributes support. When creating an archive
> +\fB\-\-xattrs\-include\fR defaults to \fB'*'\fR and when extracing an
> +archive \fB\-\-xattrs\-include\fR defaults to \fB'^user.*'\fR.
s/extracing/extracting/
Nathan
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