On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 15:24 -0700, Paul Eggert 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 '%' when creating the tar file > and URL-decoding when extracting? It sounds easy, but it's not done > by that patch, so what am I missing?
Yes, that seems to be OK solution. I'll prepare patch today and I'll post it in the xattr-proposal thread. Pavel