Re: XATTR option does NOT work for chattr attributes

"Vincent Callanan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Like many others, I started using star because of it's XATTR support.
> In fact, I often use it in -copy mode as a replacement for "cp -p".
>
> However I just noticed that the immutable flag (as used by the chattr
> command)
> is not preserved by star when using the XATTR option (although user
> attributes seem
> to work fine).
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is this feature not yet supported?
>
> If the latter is the case, does anyone know of any copy/archive utility that
> preserves chattr EAs.
>
> I am using Star Version 1.5a75 on RedHat/Centos 5.0 but have also noticed
> the problem on
> many other distros.

This is a very old star version.

I have no chance to test this on Linux, if you have a problem, you need
to fetch a recent source and provide a fix.

Jörg

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