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

[Curtis Doty]

Pavel Tsekov wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Curtis Doty wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>another reference:
>>http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html
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>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.
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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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