On 2018-12-19 07:43, Andrey Repin wrote: >> On Dec 19 08:29, Eliot Moss wrote: >>> On 12/19/2018 7:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>>>> 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.
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