From: Mark Harmstone <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mark Harmstone Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2020 3:54 PM > On 28/8/20 5:52 pm, Konstantin Komarov wrote: > > Hi Mark! Thanks for the feedback. It's reasonable concern, but the open > > question is how to access those NTFS attributes which extend the DOS > > attributes. user.DOSATTRIB may be good for FAT32 as DOS attributes are > > stored in 8bit. > > However, this does not apply to NTFS (32bit attributes). > > I'm not sure why this would be an issue - the obvious way of reading > user.DOSATTRIB is to use sscanf into an int, and then check for the bits > you're > interested in. The NT FILE_ATTRIBUTE_* values replicate and extend the FAT > constants used by DOS, so it shouldn't cause any confusion only exposing the > full 32-bit value.
Hi Mark! First, in v4 we've removed smbd-exclusive access to user.DOSATTRIB. Overall, we agree that unified access is preferred. If everyone is fine with sticking to user.DOSATTRIB, we'll remove other options in next patches.
