On Jan 4 22:45, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear Cygwiners - Maybe this idea has been discussed before, and I can't say I > exactly have a specific application in mind, but I was wondering about how one > might achieve reliable backup/restore of files on a Windows system via a > backup program written to the POSIX interface and ported to Windows via > Cygwin. > > The idea is this: expose the Windows file attributes (such as system, archive, > hidden, etc.) as well as security descriptors (such as managed by icacls), via > specifically named extended attributes, those read/written by get/setfattr. > The Cygwin library could be enhanced to "know" the special names of these > attributes and use the appropriate, different, underlying calls to get/set > them. > > Is this a crazy idea? A useful one? (How useful?) What implementation > effort would be required?
It would be possible with not too much effort. That would need a bit of discussion, for instance, do we want to show up the native ACL in listxattr? Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
