BTW: converting name/value pairs with unknown meaning into something
different (as UTF-8) may cause problems and is not needed as the meta
data in extended tar headers is binary clean due to it's length tag.
Jorg, the problem is that the character '=' may really cause problems.
Stored xtended
Ondrej Vasik ova...@redhat.com wrote:
AFAIK Red Hat has already signed FSF papers for all employees if the
developed patch is part of the work (at least it was the case for
coreutils, but I assume this is the same for GNU tar). This patch comes
from Pavel and is based on the patch of James
Pavel Raiskup prais...@redhat.com wrote:
I'd like ChangeLog entries so that everything is properly credited.
Thanks.
Paul, I miss that ^^ sorry - I'm afraid that building a meaningful
changelog for xattr patch is impossible even for me now. I tried to
comment important parts of patch
Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
On 10/08/2012 08:52 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
we are not able to store/restore extended attributes containing '='
character in the keyword properly - same situation in star as our patch
uses the same approach.
Can't we fix this by URL-encoding '=' and
Pavel Raiskup prais...@redhat.com wrote:
BTW: converting name/value pairs with unknown meaning into something
different (as UTF-8) may cause problems and is not needed as the meta
data in extended tar headers is binary clean due to it's length tag.
Jorg, the problem is that the character
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 12:42 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Pavel Raiskup prais...@redhat.com wrote:
BTW: converting name/value pairs with unknown meaning into something
different (as UTF-8) may cause problems and is not needed as the meta
data in extended tar headers is binary clean due
Pavel Raiskup prais...@redhat.com wrote:
AFAIK, the Linux xattr names are not living in the filesystem but inside
files,
so I would assume that there are other rules for them.
AFAIK, they resides in the filesystem on Linux. Thats the reason why
linux xattrs have this low size limits
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 11:52 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Ondrej Vasik ova...@redhat.com wrote:
AFAIK Red Hat has already signed FSF papers for all employees if the
developed patch is part of the work (at least it was the case for
coreutils, but I assume this is the same for GNU tar).
