Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface

[M. Gerards]

Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu>:

>    > > 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