Markus Steinborn <gnugv_maintai...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> >> star stores the numeric owner in a forth field of an acl: (e.g.
> >> "u:msteinbo:rwx:500").
> > Correct, this is an extension to the ACL format that was needed to allow
> > ACLs
> > to be archivable in a reliable way at all.
> >
> Well, I have to notice that this is not fixed before release of an ACL
> anbeled tar. So every tar archive created with GNU tar 1.27 does not
> store ACLs in a reliable way.
>
> Expect bug reports what that breaks... I would expect to break
> everything with numeric owner option.
It may also break compatibility with ACL aware tar archives in general - I did
not yet check whether this format is readable at all... well let's see:
And just a hint: there are no POSIX ACLs.
But /tmp/tar-1.27/src/tar: POSIX ACL support is not available does not look
convincing on a system that supports the POSX ACL draft that was with drawn in
1997.
Sorry, I cannot test as gtar does not seem to support this kind of old ACLs.
It seems that there are more problems, the code does not seem to be written
in C:
CC wordsplit.o
"./wordsplit.h", line 37: warning: attribute parameter "__printf__" is undefined
"./wordsplit.h", line 37: warning: attribute "format" may not be applied to
variable, ignored
"./wordsplit.h", line 39: warning: attribute parameter "__printf__" is undefined
"./wordsplit.h", line 39: warning: attribute "format" may not be applied to
variable, ignored
"wordsplit.c", line 64: warning: attribute parameter "__printf__" is undefined
This was a forgiving compiler - other compilers would flag a syntax error.
what is the planned audience for gtar?
Jörg
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