[CalendarServer-dev] Re: twisted dav : xattrprops on linux

[Stuart Jansen]

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 at gurulabs.com>
Guru Labs, L.C.
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