Nobody III wrote:
I suppose we could use this mechanism, which we already use for ioctl,
for several other file attributes as well, e.g. timestamps.
Implement getting or setting the extended attributes via an ioctl? Seems
to be a logical approach. But then this should be done in libc
implementa
I suppose we could use this mechanism, which we already use for ioctl, for
several other file attributes as well, e.g. timestamps. We could put it all
under a directory named .attrs-(filename).
As for performance, the filesystem drivers could implement attribute access
as separate files while stil
Norman Feske wrote:
Hello Valery,
thanks for the background info about extended attributes.
mandatory to be existed when opening the file). So, EA's on FAT32 are
laying around near the file itself, in the same directory, in a hidden
file. The disadvantage is that EA files are laying around eve
Hello Valery,
thanks for the background info about extended attributes.
> mandatory to be existed when opening the file). So, EA's on FAT32 are
> laying around near the file itself, in the same directory, in a hidden
> file. The disadvantage is that EA files are laying around everywhere,
> like a
On 31.03.2019 23:08, ttco...@netcourrier.com wrote:
Correction: "Mail" is probably a quite bad example, as it relies
heavily on extended attributes. There are probably many candidates all
over the difficulty spectrum (from easy to hard) that would make more
sense to port. Unless someone came up
On 3/31/19 4:08 PM, ttco...@netcourrier.com wrote:
Correction: "Mail" is probably a quite bad example, as it relies heavily
on extended attributes. There are probably many candidates all over the
difficulty spectrum (from easy to hard) that would make more sense to
port. Unless someone came up
Correction: "Mail" is probably a quite bad example, as it relies heavily on
extended attributes. There are probably many candidates all over the difficulty
spectrum (from easy to hard) that would make more sense to port. Unless someone
came up with a hack to wrap xattr's into something else, ouc
Thank you for contributing to this topic Joel, seems to me we need this.
The topic of native (non virtualized) applications is very dear to me, so can't
resist adding my two cents:
Stickynotes are cute and would be easy to implement, but here is my real Genode
wishlist:
Right on. Even more s
Stickynotes are cute and would be easy to implement, but here is my real Genode
wishlist:
Email client - I would be happy with anything
IRC client - I love communicating with IRC chat, and the folks at #genode are
very helpful :)
RSS Reader - I have my most important news sent to me via RSS, and
