Joerg Schilling wrote: > OK, then please back out the changes to Sun tar related to "Trusted > Extensions" > ans let us start a technically based discussion _how_ these extensions should > be implemented.
If you have concerns about the implementation of Trusted Extensions, the best place to discuss them would be security-discuss at opensolaris.org, where much of the TX team can be found. > I did never see a related PSARC case, so it seems that this change was made > without permission anyway. It was covered in PSARC 2005/723, which is unfortunately missing most of it's materials on <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2005/723/>. > The POSIX.1-2001 tar extensions are a clean method that _definitely_ should > be > used for all new features. As this was not done for the ZFS enhancements as > well for the "Trusted Extensions", something did go massively wrong. Since > the > year 2001, there is no reson to continue to use deprecated POSIX.1-1988 > methods > anymore. Much of the Trusted Extensions work was integrating work done long before 2001 in the Trusted Solaris product line. The case materials note that the tar extensions were carried forward from Trusted Solaris 2.5.1 & Trusted Solaris 8, and preserve backwards compatibility with the Trusted Solaris 8 implementation. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
