Joerg Schilling wrote: > Gary Winiger <gww at eng.sun.com> wrote: > > >>>> Proposal: >>>> >>>> Integrate schily tar (star), a tar-like clone with more >>>> features >>>> >>> >>> Does star(1) support the Trusted Solaris extensions? >>> >> I should have asked: "Does star(1) support all the functionality >> of tar(1)? If not what's missing?" >> > > If called as "tar", star supports the functionality of Sun's tar with a few > exceptions. Once, star is in OpenSolaris, I hope this is no longer a rabbit > and hedgehog play. > Are there other exceptions other than those addressed below? So, for the purposes of documentation I'd like to see the exceptions noted. > There is currently no support for Sun's ACL/extended-attribute archive format > that is based on outdated technology. Star however supports a _portable_ ACL > archive format that is based on recent POSIX technology for vendor specific > extensions. > I can understand reasons for not writing Solaris format archives, but what prevents star or the OpenSolaris star project from reading Solaris format archives? Lack of interest may be a satisfactory answer, but there are those who already have tar-like archives from Solaris.
From what you've indicated, star supports an archive format WRT ACLs that readable and usable by tar implementations on other OSs (other than a star implementation). Is that correct? > The problem with the trusted Solaris extensions is that they are undocumented. > > Let us discuss the application interface to make it fit nicely into star and > let us define an archive format for these extensions. I see no reason why > this > cannot be implemented. > > I am also interested in discussing the archive format for extended attribute > files. > Joerg, I and others are interested in discussing archive format (tar-like) for various applications within Solaris and OpenSolaris. Portability of format is a big deal. Is there a OpenSolaris or other discussion forum in which these are being discussed? > J?rg > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Matthews email: Rick.Matthews at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. phone:+1(651) 554-1518 1270 Eagan Industrial Road phone(internal): 54418 Suite 160 fax: +1(651) 554-1540 Eagan, MN 55121-1231 USA main: +1(651) 554-1500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
