Hi, 

Thanks a lot for your answers,  my interest is to save UNIX ACLs as well
as the POSIX proposal.   
I'm going to use star. 

Best regards,
Didier

Le samedi 02 décembre 2006 à 15:03 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit :

> Granjon Didier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > HEllo,
> >
> > i whish to knwon if there are any plans to support Posix Acl in futur
> > version of tar ? 
> 
> Let me try to clear things up:
> 
> -     POSIX ACLs are not a standard but a Standard proposal that
>       has been modelled after an old UNIX ACL implementation from
>       the early 1990s.
> 
>       The POSIX ACL proposal has been withdrawn around 1997.
> 
> -     The current ACL standard is in the NFSv4 spec (RFC-3530,
>       http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3530.txt) and is 100% bitwise
>       identical to NTFS ACLs.
> 
> -     "tar" supports the UNIX ACL implementation since ~ 1995
>       and NFSv4 ACLs since 2004.
>       See: 
>       http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/tar/
>       This development for this source started ~ 1977
> 
> -     "star" supports the UNIX ACLs as well as the POSIX proposal
>       since summer 2001.
>       See: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/
>       This development for this source started ~ 1982
> 
> -     "GNU tar" does not support ACLs
>       This development for this source started ~ 1986
> 
> -     Some other OS did start to support the withdrawn POSIX ACL
>       proposal since 2002 (after star supported it).
> 
> -     star will support standard (NFSv4) ACLs soon.
> 
> What are you interested in?
> 
> If you need the old ACLs for one of the supported platforms (Solaris,
> FreeBSD, Linux, SCO and probably IRIX and True-64), I recommend to use star.
> 
> 
> 
> Jörg
> 

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