Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think this is wasted time. The whole XATTR API is brain dead and
> > should IMHO be depreciated in favor of a extension which will allow
> > all applications to access such attribute files. You should also take
> > into consideration that the XATTR API will not be supported on any
> > other operating systems in the foreseeable future due its brokenness.
>
> So if it is just the API that is broken we can fix that. Apple's HFS+
> has extended attributes as well and uses them quite heavily as far as I
> can tell. Their API is different to the openat(2) that Solaris has though.
I see no reason to change the current API.
I am however interested in some definitions that would allow people to map
between the Sun XATTR system and other XATTR systems.
This is very important as other people currently implement NFSv4 XATTR support
and this could be used as a way to unify the XATTR implementations.
Jörg
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