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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> writes: |
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> You miss my point. GNU tar sometimes changes its on disk format (and |
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> will be doing so again at some point for xattrs) |
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It's not really important to the discussion, but... |
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The TAR format is designed as such that on disk formats can be extended |
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without breaking entirely backward compatibility. For what it's worth, |
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extended attributes and ACLs are already supported by star (Schilling's) |
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and bsdtar (libarchive). The fact that GNU tar doesn't support them at |
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the moment is a different problem. On the other hand, even if the GNU |
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tar does not support reading those attributes, it does handle them |
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gracefully, warning the user of unknown extended headers, and then |
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proceeding to unpack the data without preserving the extended |
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attributes. |
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So what Doug said stands perfectly and does not interest GNU tar at all. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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