Well ACLs, SE Linux labels, LSB compliance and blind adherence to standards don't excite many people here.
If there are non intrusive diffs by all means send them but I can't imagine anyone rushing off to implement this. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 05:56:18PM -0400, Wayne Pollock wrote: > The pax command supports many formats, but not the SUS/POSIX > required "pax" format. This format is required to portably > archive files with extended attributes, ACLs, and other non- > traditional metadata. See > > <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_01> > > for details on this format. > > The OpenBSD version of PAX is used "downstream" by many other > distributions, including Red Hat and other Linux distributions. So > much of the Unix and Linux community is waiting for years for this > "upstream" package to have the useful and required format added, before > they fix their own packages. > > -- > Wayne Pollock
