On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:32, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: > > I trialled xattrs on a couple of little projects, just for > > storing metadata about files, and found runat very useful > > for development and debugging. I think it should be kept. > > Right but thats what it is a development and debug tool not a tool for > building other applications on top of.
But you still need such a tool. (Maybe not in /usr/bin, but then again given some of the other stuff that gets in there why not.) And I can see valid uses in the regular case. You do need to be able to script this. (The Mac comparison is the one to think of - one thing we did was to try using an xattr to specify the right application to open a file, in cases where it couldn't be divined by other means. Another was to associate files together in groups, so that a cleanup script could correctly wipe out the files it should and leave the important ones behind.) > > (The trials didn't get very far, mainly due to lack of > > support in java and perl.) > > If that were to happen would you do more with xattrs ? Particuarly > given how they are supported properly in NFSv4 ? Personally, in my current job, I'm not in a position to. But to make use of them all the development languages (java, perl, php, ruby,...) need to have support built in. I think it's unreasonable to expect everyone to use openat(2) directly. Even shell scripts - it's much easier to innovate and prototype in a script. -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
