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Clarification on pax extended header keywords

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Subject: Clarification on pax extended header keywords
From: Mark Brown <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:58:43 -0600
There is some confusion on whether pax must recognize
extended keywords which begin with "realtime." and "security.".
I contend that the specific mention of "realtime.<any>" and
"security.<any>" is just an unnecessarily specific instance of
the general statement earlier in the section that  " Keywords
consisting entirely of lowercase letters, digits, and periods
are reserved for future standardization."

The conformance tests are currently expecting extended header
keywords which begin with "realtime." and "security." to be processed
without error by pax, so either our implementation or the test is in
error.

Any advice?


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Mark S. Brown 
STSM, UNIX/Linux OS Standards
IBM Systems Group
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