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| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote Re: only user.* extended attributes restored upon extraction | #1 |
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After discussing this with upstream it became clear that the documentation is incorrect and it is deliberate that only the "user.*" extended attributes are applied by default during extraction.
"This decision was done because only user.* attributes are 100% safe to
extract. The security.* (especially capabilities) can have some binary
format specific to the box creating the archive but incompatible with host
extracting the archive."
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The man for tar should be updated to reflect that to avoid any confusion.