RE: Extended attributes

2014-01-19 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! > I'm really not inclined to add this. As it is, the NTFS xattr are > always treated as user attributes. An NTFS attr "foo.bar" is returned > as "user.foo.bar" and when writing, a "user.foo.bar" is written as > "foo.bar". Adding other attribute types requires to add some special > casin

Re: Extended attributes

2014-01-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:16:00AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 16 10:08, Pavel Fedin wrote: >> 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 th

Re: Extended attributes

2014-01-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 16 10:08, Pavel Fedin wrote: > 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 o

RE: Extended attributes

2014-01-15 Thread Pavel Fedin
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.

Re: Extended attributes

2014-01-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 15 10:27, Pavel Fedin wrote: > Hello! > > > "user." xattrs are supported, but no others. This is partially to have > > smooth support of xattrs when using Samba shares. See the attr > > package and the getxattr, etc. calls in Cygwin's ntea.cc. > > Yes, i have checked that. > What do

RE: Extended attributes

2014-01-14 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! > "user." xattrs are supported, but no others. This is partially to have > smooth support of xattrs when using Samba shares. See the attr > package and the getxattr, etc. calls in Cygwin's ntea.cc. Yes, i have checked that. What do you think about adding other possible namespaces (sy

Re: Extended attributes

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 17:53, Pavel Fedin wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any support for xattrs ? I sometimes work with SquashFS images > which make use of them (like security.capability) and i'd like to be able to > store them along files. > If not implemented, can this be somehow fulfilled ? For example, we