Kristýna Streitová <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > it seems that we encountered a bug in star 1.5.3 as star is not able to > preserve 'security.capability" extended attribute after extracting. The > problem seems to be in the lchown() and set_xattr() calls order > (star_unix.c). I'm attaching a simple patch that switches these two > calls and solves this issue for us.
Thank you for the information. It seems that the Linux kernel changed since 2003 and now clears the xattr content with a chown() or lchown() call. I modified star and released a new version in the schilytools. A new star source package will be created the next weeks. > Btw. Fedora encountered a similar issue in tar [1]. BTW: Fedora does not come with "tar", but with "gtar" ;-) Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ S-tar-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/s-tar-developers
