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Re: [Bug-tar] Suprising behavior of extract with --xattrs


From: Ian Bentley
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Suprising behavior of extract with --xattrs
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:26:01 -0400

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On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 16:55, Brian Murray <address@hidden> wrote:
When enabling extended attribute support in a tar file (--xattrs) all
extended attributes are stored in the archive, however when the same archive
is extracted only the user.* extended attributes are extracted. To have all
the extended attributes read and applied on extraction one must also use the
'--xattrs-include=*' option. I find this behavior surprising and especially so
given that the documentation indicates that "By default, when `--xattr' is
used, all names are stored in the archive (or extracted, if using
`--extract')"[1].

I'm happy to help working on resolving this issue but it isn't clear to me
whether the program or the documentation is incorrect. I've read some of this
mailing list's archive but didn't find an explanation as to why restoration of
only 'user.*' extended attributes would not be a bug[2].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC70
[2] Which I reported here https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?56421

Thanks,
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Brian Murray



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Ian Bentley

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