>How should the shell then be able to access the XATTR files ? Almost
>everything in the original Unix was contructed around files and the
>shell and therefore I don't feel well with suddenly having to deal with
>filesystem objects which are inaccessible from the shell.
>And as I said in
>http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-May/016308.html
>- adding XATTR support to the shells is not the right way. The kernel
>must handle the burden of XATTR support and the XATTR files and
>directories need to be accessible from the normal filesystem namespace.
>Otherwise IMO all hope is lost for proper XATTR support in shells.
So what syntax do you propose?
I could think of something like:
//@<pathname>
for:
//@/ - attributes of /
//@file - attributes of ./file
//@/usr/bin - attributes of /usr/bin
Note that you really need to start the pathname with "//" to fall under
the "POSIX double slash" rule which is the only allowable pathname
parsing exception.
Casper
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