Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The shell has no problem to access XATTR files once it did a chdir into the XATTR name space. > 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. XATTRs do not belong into the standard namespace. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
