After discussing this with upstream it became clear that the
documentation is incorrect and it is deliberate that only the "user.*"
extended attributes are applied by default during extraction.
"This decision was done because only user.* attributes are 100% safe to
extract. The security.* (especially capabilities) can have some binary
format specific to the box creating the archive but incompatible with host
extracting the archive."
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2019-06/msg1.html
The man for tar should be updated to reflect that to avoid any
confusion.
** Summary changed:
- only user.* extended attributes restored upon extraction
+ its undocumented that only user.* extended attributes restored upon extraction
** Summary changed:
- its undocumented that only user.* extended attributes restored upon extraction
+ its undocumented that only user.* extended attributes are restored upon
extraction
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its undocumented that only user.* extended attributes are restored
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