Extended file atributes

2006-08-13 Thread stan
I was just reading about something called extended file atributes, in Linux. This seems to be a way to store arbitray tag - value pairs in the filesystem, which are assocaited with a given file. Can this be done in FreeBSd? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand

Re: Extended file atributes

2006-08-13 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Sunday 13 August 2006 10:31, stan wrote: I was just reading about something called extended file atributes, in Linux. This seems to be a way to store arbitray tag - value pairs in the filesystem, which are assocaited with a given file. Hello, it's similar, but not identical... see

Re: Extended file atributes

2006-08-13 Thread stan
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 10:57:31AM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: On Sunday 13 August 2006 10:31, stan wrote: I was just reading about something called extended file atributes, in Linux. This seems to be a way to store arbitray tag - value pairs in the filesystem, which

Re: Extended file atributes

2006-08-13 Thread Jörgen Blomberg
stan wrote: I was just reading about something called extended file atributes, in Linux. This seems to be a way to store arbitray tag - value pairs in the filesystem, which are assocaited with a given file. Can this be done in FreeBSd? Yes, have a look at setextattr(8) and extattr(9

Re: Extended file atributes

2006-08-13 Thread stan
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 07:26:13PM +0200, J?rgen Blomberg wrote: stan wrote: I was just reading about something called extended file atributes, in Linux. This seems to be a way to store arbitray tag - value pairs in the filesystem, which are assocaited with a given file. Can