Re: [Bug-tar] Support for Hurd translators

[Marco Gerards]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Sergey,

> > Well, I've noticed it has support for this now so I want to add
> > support for translators.  Is this already possible with the current
> > state of tar and what do I need to do? 
> 
> Well, I believe it is possible. I am still continuing the code cleanup
> (to be precise, the rewritten extract.c and buffer.c will soon be
> added to the repository), but I guess this will not conflict with
> your part of work. So give it a try!

Ok, I will start hacking.

Translators have '\0's in them to separate arguments, is this ok for
usage in tar?

An example would be:

/hurd/ext2fs\0/dev/hd0s3

Where the \0 is the ASCII value 0.

There are two other things that need to be included in a tar archive
for the Hurd:

- Another set of "rwx"-bits.
- Support for authors (similar to a user or a group).

I won't do this because I don't think it is important yet, I'm just
mentioning this because it might be useful to know this should be
(IMHO) added eventually.

> > (Is there anything I should know before I start hacking?).
> 
> I'll prepare a detailed description for you later today.

I'm looking forwards to it.

Thanks,
Marco