Joerg Schilling wrote: > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think this is wasted time. The whole XATTR API is brain dead and > > > should IMHO be depreciated in favor of a extension which will allow > > > all applications to access such attribute files. You should also take > > > into consideration that the XATTR API will not be supported on any > > > other operating systems in the foreseeable future due its brokenness. > > > > So if it is just the API that is broken we can fix that. Apple's HFS+ > > has extended attributes as well and uses them quite heavily as far as I > > can tell. Their API is different to the openat(2) that Solaris has though. > > I see no reason to change the current API.
How should the shell then be able to access the XATTR files ? Almost everything in the original Unix was contructed around files and the shell and therefore I don't feel well with suddenly having to deal with filesystem objects which are inaccessible from the shell. And as I said in http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-May/016308.html - adding XATTR support to the shells is not the right way. The kernel must handle the burden of XATTR support and the XATTR files and directories need to be accessible from the normal filesystem namespace. Otherwise IMO all hope is lost for proper XATTR support in shells. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
