NFSv4 ACL support in star

[Joerg Schilling]

Tim Kientzle <kientzle at acm.org> wrote:

>
> On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
> > I am ready with the final conversions that hopefully will allow the code to 
> > compile again on Linux tomorrow. Maybe, I should publish the source then as a 
> > base for future discussions.
>
> Please post some sample archives created with your extensions.

I created an updated man page at:

	http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/man/star/star.4.html

give me some time to create some archives.

> I started to add NFSv4 support to libarchive a few years ago
> but never finished.  It would be good to complete that in a way
> that was compatible.

I was going to implement NFSv4 support in 2005, but then it took a lot of time 
to convince Sun to implement a useful library interface.

There have been problems in both acltotext() and aclfromtex() and after some 
time, Sun finally came up with acl_totext() and acl_fromtex() but then I had no 
time and the project went out of my mind. 

BTW: when this is done, it may make sense to discuss a portable format for 
extended attribute files that are also defined by NFSv4 and ZFS.

Jörg

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