On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 06:49 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Also remember that, since Mac OS before 10.4 doesn't support arbitrarily
> named xattrs, only a few {get,set}xattr calls have {get,set}attrlist
> equivalents, namely those that access "com.apple.ResourceFork",
> "com.apple.FinderInfo", or "com.apple.crtime96" (the rsync-specific name
> for the creation time).I take one third of that back. Based on the patched rsync 2.5.5, it looks like the filesystem exposes the resource fork of a file F as a file at the path "F/rsrc". To perform a getxattr(F, "com.apple.ResourceFork"), rsync will have to open and read "F/rsrc", not call getattrlist. (Supposedly the "F/rsrc" syntax is deprecated, but rsync will only use it in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier, so we don't care.) Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
