From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32410 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2014 09:15:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 32401 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jan 2014 09:15:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:15:32 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9080E1A0BF8; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:15:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:15:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Extended attributes Message-ID: <20140115091530.GH10212@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <006e01cf1066$c5f0e080$51d2a180$%fedin@samsung.com> <20140113141041.GC21977@calimero.vinschen.de> <002f01cf11ba$df28b550$9d7a1ff0$%fedin@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wayzTnRSUXKNfBqd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002f01cf11ba$df28b550$9d7a1ff0$%fedin@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00169.txt.bz2 --wayzTnRSUXKNfBqd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1081 On Jan 15 10:27, Pavel Fedin wrote: > Hello! >=20 > > "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. >=20 > Yes, i have checked that. > 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). Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --wayzTnRSUXKNfBqd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJS1lGyAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gyCsQAJp2y8O0vtmYiOSFdhkQA8MK EUv7JEFxQR5fnn8HFTMcd4QGO4ncIxSfSwOQmZvEdCx4+pzFjJjMWq/hv4CpPUUF Z5Q0Jg97vvfoPhysZUj90hLuKXnpSsggAp1NxSEuZZdnrhQjv7THzhIAxULwtJ6s PqnKMG+IMuWBJXOAZsct7Nd21L0RXCvASg28gnHIaIKw5fBPfUwYyjzFzvO9NcZ6 jWHwR1y2Rsmx7xXR5O87ZGdmKCleEszRSPFdTPlwqwChmxfpFSVyYmI5L/OYTwEY NF2ysNgWrPI1u1+YNnWzb2bP7Tv6osAw/1K0DiyGbrpOzMwSj6O0OSfGWiZmbdYJ Iq4GrMAlMZAq9wwRhJ8HAbADkYDhjHzEI6UB84eCnYMROhVCuLRu1Cpmr16cxQJX YhZ9YqbmSnOj4MhJVaqFO1tOMddu3xUrXrZTlHiLLCxKliKDA6w9iJ6z53K/g4io bDwPjbEFNxJ7X3w6pt/WVsiawwFivU6ZKeafznX7HNZt6QkIBlUvqR5NiivFRhcz Ha7Ak2DWpPKIxdgO8OsFqJ+u6IR+cmcgh20lBnE6ifLrwLg+b6F1qbZ3PT6GFRmA ACQ1j6i1vnR0UpmV4OJHaCMDeGyxDmpCKLVymd8HKHgI84Y3B+EnZsJEM+jTlTrt 1u8dqb6STDXwGPgIO8Yp =XrC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wayzTnRSUXKNfBqd--