On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 15:12 -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.
It's not that weird. Quoting from "man 5 attr": Attribute names are zero-terminated strings. The attribute name is always specified in the fully qualified namespace.attribute form, eg. user.mime_type, trusted.md5sum, system.posix_acl_access, or security.selinux. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes FreeBSD also requires that arbitrary xattr's be in the user. namespace. I suspect this should be hidden in the xattr library. -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen@gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.