On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 17:54:56 +0200 Irek Szczesniak wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 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? > >> Because it's a rare and rarely used ability and feature to deal with >> resource forks/XATTR files? I do understand why Roland did it and >> Cedric and my people own like it. We're both Apple shops in our labs >> and the admins need a way to access file files in emergencies. But I'm >> not convinced that putting resource fork/XATTR support into every >> utility is a good idea. > > I have access to a stock > Darwin * 12.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; > root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 > can you point me to anything that may have a fork/XATTR > or provide a script that creates a { file directory symlink } each with a fork
See http://lists.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2013q3/003064.html ... on OSX there are currently some custom APIs to access resource forks. But that's what http://lists.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2013q3/003064.html explains... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [email protected] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
