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archive/tar: Add support for extended attributes #7154

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gopherbot opened this issue Jan 20, 2014 · 5 comments
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archive/tar: Add support for extended attributes #7154

gopherbot opened this issue Jan 20, 2014 · 5 comments
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by alexander.larsson:

archive/tar currently has no support for extended attributes (xattrs). Docker is using
tar files and needs to support extended attributes.

Both Gnu tar and star uses the "SCHILY.xattr.<xattr-name>" pax header
inside a posix format archive for this.
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Comment 1 by alexander.larsson:

Added a patch here:
https://golang.org/cl/54570043/

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Comment 2 by alexander.larsson:

For futher info, here is how this would be used in docker:
moby/moby#3845

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Comment 3 by PaulTag:

Sorely needed!

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Comment 4:

Labels changed: added release-none, repo-main.

Status changed to Started.

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Comment 5:

This issue was closed by revision 87d58f4.

Status changed to Fixed.

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