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| From: | Roland McGrath |
| Subject: | Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:04:14 -0500 (EST) |
> 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.
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