> 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
