Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] new XATTRS/SELinux/ACLs propsal

[Pavel Raiskup]

>   3. Apply 0003-*.patch - adding support for POSIX ACLs.  This feature is
>      fully compatible with classic Linux permissions but it is not ready
>      to be used with more detailed Solaris/NTFSv4 ACLs.  Anyway, once
>      these ACLs becomes wide used, it will be possible to handle these in
>      parallel with POSIX.  I hope that this feature is very useful for
>      quite a lot of users that are already using POSIX ACLs.
>
>      We are using the same header keywords in tar's posix archive format
>      as star uses.  POSIX ACLs are then portable between both tools, star and
>      GNU tar.
>
>      Same way as in --xattrs patch is done, --no-acls option is added by
>      this patch and as before possible warnings during writing ACLs may be
>      suppressed by using of the '--warning=no-xattr-write option'.
>
>      This feature may be disabled by --without-posix-acls during
>      ./configure phase.

Attaching patch that avoids linking against -lacl when --without-posix-acls is
used.

avoid_better_disable_acls.patch
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