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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Extended attributes
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140113141041.GC21977@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006e01cf1066$c5f0e080$51d2a180$%fedin@samsung.com>

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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 could
> store them in a dedicated NTFS stream.

"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.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-13 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-13 13:53 Pavel Fedin
2014-01-13 14:10 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-01-15  6:27   ` Pavel Fedin
2014-01-15  9:15     ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-16  6:08       ` Pavel Fedin
2014-01-16  9:16         ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-16 18:52           ` Christopher Faylor
2014-01-20  5:22           ` Pavel Fedin

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