Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-04-07 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:37:48PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > >By the way, I'm currently also looking into the possibility of > >porting findutils to MINIX 3. I miss it badly there! > > If it runs under QEMU or (better) Xen I can support it. Otherwise I > can accept patches, but not guarantee

Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-04-07 Thread James Youngman
On 4/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you happen to have an idea WRT to the xattr testing problem (reminder: tests will fail if xattr not supported on test file system)? Coinvention - we just issue a warning message and skip the tests. By the way, I'm currently also loo

Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-04-07 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:15:02PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > ... that reminds me to remind you: don't forget the tests and > documentation! Not forgotten :) Did you happen to have an idea WRT to the xattr testing problem (reminder: tests will fail if xattr not supported on test file system)?

Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-04-07 Thread James Youngman
On 4/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maynot be available on all platforms, so configure > should check for it. Yeah, that's a TODO for me. I just committed a change to the polzer branch in the git repository (http://repo.or.cz/w/findutils.git) which does this. More gene

Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-04-04 Thread James Youngman
On 4/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [taking this to bug-findutils] On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:40:05AM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > I'm not sure what the relative performance cost is of the functions > get_attr() and so forth. I would not be surprised to see that they > w

Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-04-04 Thread leslie . polzer
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:33:54PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > When adding an item to struct predicate, please use a comment to > indicate which predicates it supports. Done. > maynot be available on all platforms, so configure > should check for it. Yeah, that's a TODO for me. > fnmatc

Re: [PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-04-04 Thread leslie . polzer
[taking this to bug-findutils] On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:40:05AM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > I'm not sure what the relative performance cost is of the functions > get_attr() and so forth. I would not be surprised to see that they > were about as fast as access(), perhaps a little slower. So

[PATCH] Draft for xattr support

2007-03-31 Thread leslie . polzer
Hello James, the attached patch includes the guts for extended attributes support in find. Not yet included: * wildcard matching attributes with fnmatch() * success rate estimation * checks in configure.ac for attr headers and libraries * documentation changes Open questi