[Bug-tar] Re: Portable extended attributes between Linux and FreeBSD

[Tim Kientzle]

Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Given the recent discussions here, I thought there
> might be some interest in the extended attribute
> support that I'm developing for the next version of
> libarchive and bsdtar.  I posted a more complete
> description of this work:
>
> http://libarchive-discuss.googlegroups.com/

Apologies; it looks like that URL doesn't do what
I expected.  (I'm still learning my way around Google
services...)

This seems to be the correct URL for the mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/libarchive-discuss

I've also started assembling some documentation about
ACL and extended attribute storage in tar files.  My
goal here is to document the various approaches in use
and decide how I'm going to handle NFSv4 ACLs in libarchive.
(Which looks like it could be significantly more complex
than POSIX.1e ACL support.)

That documentation is coming together here:

http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/w/list

As always, feedback appreciated,

Tim Kientzle