Hynek Schlawack <h...@ox.cx> added the comment: This ticket has a small catch:
There are several namespaces. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xattr#Linux : - user: can be set by anyone - trusted: root only - security: root only - system: even root can’t do that, at least not in my vm I’m writing a shutil.copyxattr() first which could simple get another argument for the namespaces that should be copied. However what to do inside copy2()? I’m tending to either: 1. copy only user.* 2. ignore errors in any namespace != user Personally, I find the second approach rather non-deterministic. So I’d suggest: - copyxattr has an extra argument called namespaces with default being ['user'], so that in theory someone who wants to do something more sophisticated can do it. - copy2 copies only user.* though because that’s what you usually want. Please let me know what you think about it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14082> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
