Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I think this is wasted time. The whole XATTR API is brain dead and
> > > > should IMHO be depreciated in favor of a extension which will allow
> > > > all applications to access such attribute files. You should also take
> > > > into consideration that the XATTR API will not be supported on any
> > > > other operating systems in the foreseeable future due its brokenness.
> > >
> > > So if it is just the API that is broken we can fix that. Apple's HFS+
> > > has extended attributes as well and uses them quite heavily as far as I
> > > can tell. Their API is different to the openat(2) that Solaris has
> > > though.
> >
> > I see no reason to change the current API.
>
> How should the shell then be able to access the XATTR files ? Almost
By supporting cd file and cd -@ dir
Jörg
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