Re: [Bug-tar] ACL support, extract and default ACLs

[Joerg Schilling]

Markus Steinborn <address@hidden> wrote:

> It is about creating archives, not about extracting. Currently I cannot 
> produce a case where such an ACL is stored in the tar archive. Well, if 
> the archive does not contain these trivial ACLs, the extractor can 
> decide, so this may help for extracting. But that's not the cause of 
> above problems.

I cannot verify this as GNU tar does not compile with ACL support, ... but

>
> Some patch like the following may help:
>
> +         (0, errno,
> +          _ ("acl_set_file_at: Cannot remove POSIX default ACLs for 
> file '%s'"),

There is no "POSIX ACL". 

What you refer to is a POSIX draft that was based on the Solaris ACL 
implementation that was available since 1992/1993, but this draft was 
withdrawn in 1997.

Jörg

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