>> The intention for '-xattr' was to keep it generic, it cropped up as >> a by-productfrom working on the '-cap' functionality. Were there any >> particular designpoints you had in mind?
>I know nothing about attributes. But it would probably be useful to >discuss what -xattr *should* do before you spend time writing code to >implement it. >Dale Hi Dale .. extended attributes are basically key/value pairs, all the xattr code does currently is a simple regex match against the names of any extended attributes that may be present for the file. Capabilities are also stored as extended attributes so the '-cap' test isspecifically to perform a regex match against the value of the security.capability extended attribute if it's present. My initial use case was to find files that had SUID/SGID capabilities set. It actually didn't take long to write the PoC utilities but I'm happy to accept any suggestions .. thanks Morgan
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