O_XATTR support in FreeBSD?

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 26, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 5. Support for tar and pax is already there. Its described in
> Solaris's fsattr man page, they use a extended header with filename
> /dev/null (to prevent older tar versions from tripping over the new
> headers) and then have a named attribute header which describes the
> attributes names and flags.

There are quite a few alternative approaches for storing
extended attributes in tar and pax files.

I’ve documented several at:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarExtendedAttributes

If you have documentation for variations that aren’t explained
there, please let me know.  Small sample tar or pax files that
can be evaluated are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Tim