On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 17:03 -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
Colin Walters wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell, the *only* software we ship that even supports
> xattrs at all is "star". However star has the enormous drawback ...
Wouldn't it be more sensible to extend "tar" to support xattrs?
My impression was that several people have looked at modifying GNU tar
to support xattrs, and ended up running away screaming...