[issue12978] Figure out extended attributes on BSDs

Ned Deily added the comment: On 2018-10-02, worr asked on the python-dev mailing list: > Can I get a review for GH-1690[PR 1690]? It fixes bpo-12978 and > has been sitting for a handful of years now. This adds > support for os.*xattr on DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD. -- versions: +P

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William Orr added the comment: After a considerable amount of rework, I've gotten something worth submitting. All unit tests pass, and it handles some of the more unfortunate differences between FreeBSD's extended attribute syscalls and Linux's. One of the bigger changes is that I reworked the

[issue12978] Figure out extended attributes on BSDs

Ned Deily added the comment: There certainly is interest in supporting extended attributes on additional platforms. Thanks for the patch, William, and the positive comments, Billy. Since this probably falls into the category of new feature, it should be targeted for 3.6, now that 3.5 is in f

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Billy Foster added the comment: Is there any chance of getting this finalized? I have been using William Orr's patch as a workaround for months now, but it would be nice to not have to manually apply it each version bump... -- nosy: +billyfoster __

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William Orr added the comment: Here's an initial attempt at implementing extended attribute support. Let me know if there's any interest. There's currently one deficiency, which is that the namespace isn't prepended to the attribute name when calling lsxattr. Let me know if my approach is goo

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Ronald Oussoren added the comment: The OSX API also has a "position" argument for both getting and setting extended attributes. The position should be 0 for normal attributes, and can have other values when accessing the resource fork of a file. --

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koobs added the comment: And to clarify the no-follow-symlinks case on FreeBSD: extattr_{get,set,list,delete}_link "system calls behave in the same way as their _file counterparts, except that they do not follow sym-links." as per the man page. -- ___

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koobs added the comment: FreeBSD (at least on 7.x, 8.x and 9.x) has the following syscalls available in its API: extattr_{get,set,list,delete}_{fd,file,link} And also has: EXTATTR_MAXNAMELEN http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=extattr&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE -- no

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Benjamin Peterson added the comment: 2012/3/12 Nicholas Riley : > > Nicholas Riley added the comment: > > I've spent a few hours looking at xattr and the Linux/OS X (10.4+) > implementations.  Bob Ippolito's xattr module implements the OS X xattr > interface on Linux, Solaris (9+) and FreeBSD

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Nicholas Riley added the comment: I've spent a few hours looking at xattr and the Linux/OS X (10.4+) implementations. Bob Ippolito's xattr module implements the OS X xattr interface on Linux, Solaris (9+) and FreeBSD. Linux and OS X are pretty close; FreeBSD and Solaris are substantially di

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Ned Deily added the comment: Have you looked at Bob Ippolito's xattr module which has been out for some time and wraps Linux, OS X, BSD, and Solaris extended attributes? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xattr -- nosy: +ned.deily ___ Python tracker

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New submission from Benjamin Peterson : Extended attribute support currently exists in the os module for Linux. BSD's (including OSX) have a similar (but of course incompatible) interface. They should be exposed through the same functions. For example, os.getxattr("myfile", "user.whatever") s