Robert Thurlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Holger Berger wrote:
>
> > For which specific application was the XATTR API designed for?
>
> To permit Solaris to provide SMB/CIFS "named streams" or subfiles,
> also similar to the resource fork files have on MacOS. This was
> adopted by NFS Version 4, as well. They are not meant to resemble
> things like getxattr()/setxattr() in Linux. I believe that this
> is a useful facility, though we probably should not have applied
> the name "extended attributes" to them.
Correct, the Linux getxattr()/setxattr() api is just a high level
interface to a limited subset of the Sun XATTR API.
I see no problem with the SUn XATTR API (other than the fact that
it is missing usage definitions) but I see problems with the fact that
Linux people call their limited subset "XATTR" too.
Jörg
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