"Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The problem I see that these "extended attributes" are inaccessible
> from within normal applications and the provided kludges such as

Why do you believe this?

> 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.

Roland proposed to implement "cd -@ file" in addition to runat(1).

AFAIK, Apple did not have their limited MacOS-9 XATTRS visible in the
same namespace as files too.


Jörg

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