On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Holger Berger wrote:
> The problem I see that these "extended attributes" are inaccessible
> from within normal applications and the provided kludges such as
> runat(1) are not usable outside a lab environment. First at all these
> extended attribute files need to be made accessible in the normal file
> system name space, otherwise it is just wasted time to deal with them.
The whole point of them is that they aren't part of the normal file
system name space. They aren't on MacOS X either as best as I can tell,
and I don't believe (though I have no way to check nor the skill to do
so) that they are on Windows XP either.
They are also fully intended to be application/system specific
What if the "application" is the shell itself? The shell cannot access
those files and many tools dump core when used via runat(1). I'd say
the current XATTR implementation is doomed - and at least the Linux
kernel developers agree with that. So far they don't plan to extend
that voyage and the patches for the kernel are put aside indefinitely
(Suse and Red Hat even have patches to remove the existing parts from
their kernel versions).
Holger
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