April Chin <April.Chin at eng.sun.com> wrote:

> > Even no drafts or standard proposals (well, I am worrying what the Linux
> > people may do with the API... ;-( ) ?
>
> I asked our standards expert, and there is nothing being proposed for
> extended attributes, e.g., no specifications for -@ options for 
> utilities.  There is a draft of a subset of functionality for
> *at() interfaces (operations against
> a path relative to a fd) proposed for *possible* inclusion in the next
> revision of SUSv3, but again, not dealing with extended attributes.

What has been done for the next revision of SUSv3 was to try adding the 
syscall interface - and this only with regards to relative addressing not to
use extended attributes.

J?rg

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