Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > Markus Gyger wrote:
> > > I patched ksh93n+ back then so that cd -@ could be used to access
> > > extended file attributes (instead of having to use runat). Patch is at
> > > http://www.blastwave.org/mantis/show_news?f_project_id=0000027
> >
> > http://www.blastwave.org/~mgyger/ast.diff.gz is the lastest patch, right
> > ?
> >
> > > (dated, of course).
> >
> > How common are the XATTR extension, e.g. is there any other OS which
> > supports this feature+userspace API ? Is there any other shell which
> > supports "cd -@" ?
> 
> Currently only Solaris supports it but other OS are underway to implement full
> NFSv4 support which usually includes XATTR support.

Is the XATTR userspace API some kind of standard (UnixXXX or something
like that) ?

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Bye,
Roland

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