Re: Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator

2020-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Did you have a look at Shengyu Zhang's work on xattr? That's about summer 2016. Also see glibc/sysdeps/mach/hurd/setxattr.c which translates gnu attributes into RPC calls, and then again in the translators's diskfs_set_translator. See for instance in hurd/ext2fs/inode.c's diskfs_set_transla

Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator

2020-05-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hello, As part of the effort of creating vm-images for the Hurd using Guix, it would be nice to use extended file attributes to set passive translators. In particular, it would be helpful if we could use setfattr --name=gnu.translator --value=/hurd/pfinet 1 That would allow us to boot right