I've held off through a combination of wanting to stay as close as
possible to the upstream sources and an apparently erroneous assumption
that with several xattr patches floating around that eventually one
would be merged.
What's the story here? Are there plans to add xattr support to tar?
On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 22:30 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/01/2012 07:27 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
Are there plans to add xattr support to tar?
I don't have any, no.
Paul, Sergey, Linux extended attributes are quite important file system
feature -- at least users of POSIX ACLs,