Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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.
What do you mean with that ? ---- Bye, Roland P.S.: Is there any list or working group (related to SUSv3/v4) which can look at the problem ? Basically the extended attributes are inaccessible from shell scripts right now and I think this should be addressed somehow... -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
