Re: [RFE] [PATCH] star vfs and xattr feature request

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Curtis Doty wrote:

> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> Hrmm, maybe I'm over-thinking the problem, but according to this
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/star/star-1.5-selinux.patch
> it had to be compiled against the selinux headers. Is that an
> appropriate direction for mc/vfs/tar.c?

I think - yes. Btw there was at least one request (in bugzilla or the
mailing list) about adding support for extended attributes to MC.