Extended attributes

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 15 10:27, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>  Hello!
> 
> > "user." xattrs are supported, but no others.  This is partially to have
> > smooth support of  xattrs when using Samba shares.  See the attr
> > package and the getxattr, etc. calls in Cygwin's ntea.cc.
> 
>  Yes, i have checked that.
>  What do you think about adding other possible namespaces (system,
>  security, and... don't remember the 3rd one) ? So that when
>  manipulating UNIX archives etc these attributes could be kept along
>  with files ? At least we have one use case now.

That doesn't make sense.  Extended attributes as implemented by Windows
are user attributes, not system attributes.  The non-user attributes
on Linux have a very special meaning to the kernel and/or are restricted
to privileged users only.  Their functionality is already provided by
other OS functions (as for system.posix_acl_access) or not at all (as
for security.selinux).


Corinna

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