ACLs and pax, tar, cpio, dump: Extensions?

[James Buster]

On Oct 20,  7:04am, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
} The tar, cpio, and other backup utilities should backup ACLs, too.
} 
} The archive formats need to be extended for that purpose.
} AFAIK the POSIX Draft Standard 17 doesn't include definitions how to
} extend the archive formats. Is there a extension `standard'?

If 1e had become a standard, there probably would have been an
extension to .2 matching it.

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