Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > GNU tar also supports POSIX archives since some months. I > > > wrote a patch for GNU tar to support passive translators > > > (GNU.translator). It should not be too hard to support this on > > > GNU/Linux as well. > > > > If you reformulate it as generic xattr support that interoperates > > with star's archives, then it won't need any Hurd-specific code > > and that would be the best thing to go into GNU tar. > > What do you mean? Should I add support for xattr for the Hurd to > glibc? > > He means that you should add xattr support to GNU tar. >
Of course, but because the Hurd has no support for xattr this would not be possible without changes here. And you need some special case for GNU/Hurd anyway because you do not want to follow *all* translators. For GNU/Linux this is not relevant at all. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
