On Oct 13, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
rsync 3pre2 now handles all but three items: 1. bsd flags 2. "locked flag" (supposedly finder meta-data) 3. creation dateThe creation date is AFAIK a mac os specific piece of meta-data and can be accessed via the set/getattrlist + ATTR_CMN_CRTIME system call on a mac. Again, this meta-data might be reasonably converted into an extended attribute.
I've attached a patch which does this. Currently resource forks and finder info get placed into an extended attribute transparently by osx (com.apple.{ResourceFork/FinderInfo}). This patch makes another "extended attribute" called com.apple.CreationDate. The only issue I've found so far is that it gives warning when copying a symlink to linux as one can't set extended attributes there. It even works when copying from hfs to fat32 on the same mac. I don't understand where osx saves the creation date in a fat filesystem, but somehow it works!?
I admit it's a bit hack-ish to put this in the extended attribute get/ set methods, but this mimics the behaviour of the other osx-specific meta-data. Also, it seems reasonable to me that it should be copied when '-X' is specified. There is no fgetattrlist method, but it seems that sys_fgetxattr is actually never used b/c x_fstat is not used.
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