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

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

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.