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[Colin Walters]

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...

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