Re: [PATCH 2/2] oe.path: preserve xattr in copytree() and copyhardlinktree()

Richard Purdie
2016-08-30T12:19:08Z

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 10:48 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> The reason why cpio was originally used had to do with filenames that
> had spaces
> or other special characters in them. (this is why the -print0 was
> used)
>
> I don't object to the change, but we need to make sure that that will
> still work
> properly.
>
> (Also I thought CPIO -could- do xattrs in the current versions...)

FWIW cpio itself doesn't appear to support xattrs, nor is it likely to
any time soon. It seems people had to use bsdcpio to get that
support...

Cheers,

Richard