Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 12:00:03 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Aligning extended attributes API with Mac OSX? Message-ID: <4277CA33.3060706@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050503155347.GA3768@crodrigues.org> References: <20050503155347.GA3768@crodrigues.org>
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Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > An extended attributes API was just added to Mac OSX 10.4. > This API looks very similar to FreeBSD's. though one is ascii and the other is UTF8 and one is name:value and the other is name=value > Right now there is no POSIX standard for extended attributes, > but EA are useful for many different types of things. > > I don't know if EA are widely used in applications on FreeBSD, > but what do people think about aligning our API with > Mac OSX? > > Here are the man pages for some of the API's: > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/listxattr.2.html > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/setxattr.2.html > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/removexattr.2.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/2/removexattr > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/getxattr.2.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/2/getxattr > > > The FreeBSD equivalents are documented in extattr(2). >
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