Hello! > > 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).
I know they have special meaning. At the other hand, if we allow them, we will allow to store them on a filesystem. Wouldn't it be nice ? This is useful at least for SquashFS image preparation. I guess for similar reasons we have support e. g. for device nodes (/dev) with their major/minor numbers. They are also ignored by Cygwin, and just stored on the filesystem (or do i miss something ?). Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
