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

[Curtis Doty <Curtis GreenKey net>]

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?

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