Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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 > > By supporting cd file and cd -@ dir
This proposal has been rejected and the provided patch is incomplete. I already described that there is still lots of work required to get such a thing working - at which point I have to question (like David (https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2006q1/000890.html) and Glenn (https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2006q2/000928.html)) whether this is the correct way (ans I provided a possible solution to the problem, too). ---- 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
