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

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