On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:07:18AM -0700, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
> Brian Cuttler on Tue 10/05 11:18 -0400:
> > I'd understood that the OS native dump could handle
> > correctly certain types of files that tar couldn't. Not an
> > issue of binaries but rather other types of special files.
> > Is this or was this true ?
> 
> Well POSIX 1.e ACLs are one of them.
> 
> Why GNU tar doesn't support ACLs when star has supported
> them for ages, is quite a mystery (possibly, so they don't
> break the tar format).


Well, this is the wrong list for it but... tar should include
a protocal version number in its header so that you could
interchange files with different versions and be upwardly
compattible. But I shouldn't start that thread here - and
for all I know (and I know nothing about tar internals) it
already has a protocal number as part of its spec.


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