On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 17:38:19 +0200 Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 17:19:29 +0200 Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> 
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > it still has not been explained why special fs treatment like this
> >> > goes into ksh and not src/lib/libast/something
> >> > is this really something *only* ksh will trip over
> >
> >> IMO yes, because entering a NFSv4 xattr directory is unique for a
> >> shell. Otherwise the only way to do it is to run /usr/bin/runat <obj>
> >> <prog> which is cumbersome at best and useless if you have builtins.
> >
> > how is the chdir()/fchdir() done by cd(1) different from the 
> > chdir()/fchdir()
> > done by find(1) or tw(1) or any of the -R commands?

> You can cd -@ into all filesystem objects and not only directories.
> Links included. And they all have their own resource forks/XATTR.

ok, but why should/shouldn't the other commands mentioned above be able to the 
same?
maybe I want to pax resource forks and everything
or, don't tell me, read(2)/write(2) don't work on resource forks

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