Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
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