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@@ -399,6 +399,21 @@ Schilling's
.Cm SCHILY.*
extensions can store all of the data from
.Va struct stat .
+.It Cm LIBARCHIVE.xattr. Ns Ar namespace Ns . Ns Ar key
+Libarchive stores POSIX.1e-style extended attributes using
+keys of this form. The
+.Ar key
+value is URL-encoded:
+All non-ASCII characters and the two special characters
+.Dq =
+and
+.Dq %
+are encoded as
+.Dq %
+followed by two uppercase hexadecimal digits.
+The value of this key is the extended attribute value
+encoded in base 64.
+XXX Detail the base-64 format here XXX
.It Cm VENDOR.*
XXX document other vendor-specific extensions XXX
.El