On 15 October 2013 22:44, Joshuah Hurst <joshhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> On 10/15/13 4:27 PM, Joshuah Hurst wrote: >> >>>>> What happened to the patch for cd -@ to handle NFSv4+Windows alternate >>>>> streams? ksh93 already has this feature since quite some time and >>>>> they're now even extending support even further to the builtin POSIX >>>>> commands... >> >> I have not added it to bash yet. > > How long does it take? > >> >>>> >>>> Do you mean cd -@ as this one in ksh? >>>> - - - - - - - - >>>> -@ Change into the hidden attribute directory of directory >>>> which >>>> may also be a file. CDPATH is ignored. Hidden attribute >>>> directories are file system and operating system >>>> specific. >>>> - - - - - - - - >>>> >>>> That would be great. Where's the patch? >>> >>> Just to be sure, this does use the extended attributes with O_XATTR, right? >> >> Yes, Cedric's patch uses O_XATTR. > > *Great*! :) > > Chester/Cedric: Can you send the patch around so we can ask the Debian > GNU/kOpenSolaris, Solaris and Illumos folks to integrate the patch in > their next bash patch update, please?
Chet: We're interested in the patch, too. We're actively use and rely on NFSv4 extended attributes for two of our main projects and I'd like to have a 2nd source of this feature. Primarily we use ksh93, perl and HPC applications for this but I'd like to have a fallback option for ksh93 for now. Lionel
