Quoting Roland McGrath <[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? And should the filesystems of the Hurd be changed too? Can you please descibe this a bit more detailed? Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
