hi, > YAMAMOTO Takashi <y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote: > >> python xattr library contains some #ifdef __FreeBSD__ code. >> i don't know if it works or not. > > Yes, you have things like this: > http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/xattr/trunk/xattr/_xattr.c > > "Converts a freebsd format attribute list into a NULL terminated list. > While the man page on extattr_list_file says it is NULL terminated, > it is actually the first byte that is the length of the > following attribute." > > At least this one can be functionnal, since it discovered the > documentation was wrong at that time :-) > >> my guess is that the code was put in kernel so that it can be used >> by compat_linux. i can be wrong. > > Linux-like API for extended attribute has been in our native NetBSD > system calls for a while, but unfortunately, it was not available as a > libc stub, not <sys/xattr.h> was installed in /usr/include.
yes, i know. what i don't understand and was guessing is why we need two sets of native syscalls. one of them can be in libc. > > This API is really useful in order to build and run natively a program > that was written for Linux. If you do not have it, you have to patch the > program to add API conversion functions. i agree. YAMAMOTO Takashi > > -- > Emmanuel Dreyfus > http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz > m...@netbsd.org
