[ACL-Devel] tar / cpio / pax: Austrin Group Draft 3

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Good news...

The Draft 3 of February 29th 2000 of the Austin Group Commands & Utilities
document includes an extension to the ustar format (which is used by pax, the
successor to both tar and cpio) that allows storage of arbitrary file attributes
(name/value pairs).

While they naturally did not try to standardize on the formats to be used for
ACL, CAP and MAC data, the mechanism is capable of what we need.


Andreas

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