Bug#368887: Cannot escape hex literal with setfattr

2006-05-30 Thread Robie Basak
Nathan Scott wrote: Hmm, to my mind its pretty straightforward and doesn't really warrant special mention in the man pages, but I guess its confusing to some. Without a mention, it can break scripts. I happened across it, but for example, I have a script that retrieves an attribute, modifies

Bug#368887: Cannot escape hex literal with setfattr

2006-05-25 Thread Robie Basak
Package: attr Version: 2.4.16-1 I am trying to set an extended attribute value of the form 0x20 (literally ASCII letters zero, x, two, zero) but setfattr presumes that I want a literal space (ASCII 0x20 or 32 decimal) instead. setfattr seemingly has no option to override this, and its behaviour

Bug#368887: Cannot escape hex literal with setfattr

2006-05-25 Thread Nathan Scott
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:40:15PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: I am trying to set an extended attribute value of the form 0x20 (literally ASCII letters zero, x, two, zero) but setfattr presumes that I want a literal space (ASCII 0x20 or 32 decimal) instead. setfattr seemingly has no option to