On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Ken Thomases <[email protected]> wrote: > Tangentially related to this xattr issue, are you aware of BSD's chflags > system call and the st_flags field of struct stat? On Mac OS X (and any > other BSD which defines UF_HIDDEN), FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN is better > implemented by checking for UF_HIDDEN in the st_flags field. This will then > actually integrate with the native API's and GUI's notion of hidden files.
Golly. No, wasn't aware of that, thanks. > Similarly, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE corresponds to the _lack_ of UF_NODUMP and > SF_ARCHIVED. (We should check the SF_ flag, but we can only expect to be > able to set/clear the UF_ flag.) I'd rather wait on that flag, it's less pressing. > It would also be good to check for UF_IMMUTABLE|SF_IMMUTABLE to determine > FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY, and set UF_IMMUTABLE when setting > FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY, although that's a bit of a digression from what > you're directly working on in your patches. Why isn't readonly enough? Geez. > The version of Samba for Mac OS X is patched to work with these flags: > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/samba/samba-235/patches/support-stflags-stat-field-rdonly > http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/samba/samba-235/patches/support-stflags-stat-field-rw Thanks for the pointers! - Dan
