Hi Wilfredo, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:12:51PM -0700, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:
(Let's chat on the mailing list; I don't always respond to direct mail, get too much and all that.)
That's a weird rule...
Does it make sense for this to be hidden in the xattr library? Perhaps not... I kinda hate to so this on OS X just because Linux is weird. I'm using this in twisted to fix this:
--- twisted/web2/dav/xattrprops.py.orig 2006-09-05 22:09:03.000000000 +0200 +++ twisted/web2/dav/xattrprops.py 2006-09-05 23:12:17.000000000 +0200 @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ __all__ = ["xattrPropertyStore"] import urllib +import sys import xattr @@ -58,8 +59,11 @@ # # Dead properties are stored as extended attributes on disk. In order to # avoid conflicts with other attributes, prefix dead property names. - # - deadPropertyXattrPrefix = "WebDAV:" + # Linux additionally needs everything in the user namespace + if sys.platform == 'linux2': + deadPropertyXattrPrefix = "user.WebDav:" + else: + deadPropertyXattrPrefix = "WebDAV:" def _encode(clazz, name): # This looks clean and hardcodes the namespace at exactly one place. Addingt this to xattr doesn't seem reasonable since there are other namespaces. Cheers, -- Guido