Re: xattr missing for MacOSX

2007-04-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:32:59AM +0200, Alan Snelgrove wrote: > The latest rsync change disables xattr when there is no lgetxattr() > function. That was just configure's guessing code when the user didn't specify either --enable-xattr-support or --disable-xattr-support. I have improved this c

xattr missing for MacOSX

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Snelgrove
The latest rsync change disables xattr when there is no lgetxattr() function. There is however, an option of the getxattr function to act on the symlink. XATTR_NOFOLLOW do not follow symbolic links. getxattr() normally returns information from the target of path if