On 8/17/07, Douglas A. Gwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you mean by "extended attributes"?
> I haven't noticed them on the Unix systems I use.
>
maybe I'm missing the question, but on my linux:
man -k extended | grep attrib | wc
21 183 1417
libattr (rpm) - Dynamic library for extended attribute support
fgetxattr [getxattr] (2) - retrieve an extended attribute value
flistxattr [listxattr] (2) - list extended attribute names
(etc. It's a lot like read but, as usual, it needs a new set of
system calls ... 5 of them.
And ls can't show them, but ... we have getfattr/setfattr
The output format of getfattr -d is as follows:
1: # file: somedir/
2: user.name0="value0"
3: user.name1="value1"
4: user.name2="value2"
5: ...
it's everywhere. But it was too hard to put in in some normal way, so
it went in from the side.
ron
