Bug or feature missing in rsync.

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Wed Sep 16 17:22:00 GMT 2009


Dave Korn wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> But why are we bothering with NTEA again?  I thought that was deprecated.
> 
>   I thought it was just the emulation on FAT filesystems that we didn't like.

  Yep: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00801.html, it's not extended
attributes as such but their use on FAT filesystems to store posix perms
(since there are no ACLs under FAT) that was deprecated.

  However there's nothing wrong with native NTFS extended attributes so we use
them to implement xattr support.

    cheers,
      DaveK



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