On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Curtis Doty wrote: > Hi, I'm the original poster of this patch to the redhat bugzilla. Where > it was closed summarily. However, I really thing adding support for > tarball extended attributes is increasingly valuable on selinux systems. > > And star seems to be the best tool for the job. Are there other ways of > safely extracting files from a tarball with these extensions? I'm happy > to rebuild the patch against the mc cvs if there is positive feedback. > > another reference: > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html
Since star archives are esentially tar archives with extended information I don't see why a extfs solution is necessary. We can just update the tar code to support the required extension keywords. It's just a matter of parsing a few strings. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel