Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Dec 19 08:29, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 12/19/2018 7:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > >> > > Bottom line is, if you want to handle DOS attributes in a special way >> > > not covered by our POSIX emulation, user space has to do it. >> > >> > Can something be implemented around getfattr to serve this use case in a >> > more >> > POSIX'y way? >> >> I was not previously much aware of get/setfattr, but I agree that that looks >> like a possible way to provide access to the Windows SYS attribute and >> friends. >> Not that I am that familiar with details of what NTFS, etc., provide, >> getfattr >> may be a way to provide access to additional attributes / facts about files >> (paths, generally) as well. Sounds like it would not be too hard to support >> access to the basic attributes this way. >> >> I suspect the general response will be PTC, though! :-)
> Not only that. attr is an upstream package, so you would have to > convince the upstream maintainers to take your patches, ideally. > attr is for handling of extended attributes, quite different from > DOS attributes. I doubt that DOS attribs fit in there. Well, well. We do have a living example of Samba (ab)using xattr to support Windows ACL on *NIX. I deduce from your response, that a DOS attributes use case would be on different side of the table, though. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, December 19, 2018 17:41:17 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
