From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 13 15:05:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FF716A4F5 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:05:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BEA43D46 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:05:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mailspool2.panix.com (mailspool2.panix.com [166.84.1.79]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D39413A785; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:05:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-68-58-232-106.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [68.58.232.106]) by mailspool2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEB8FAF400; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:05:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GCHXA-0003fT-00; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:05:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:05:48 -0400 From: stan To: Daniel Molina Wegener Message-ID: <20060813150548.GB14018@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Molina Wegener , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060813143104.GC12959@teddy.fas.com> <200608131057.32012.dmw@unete.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608131057.32012.dmw@unete.cl> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 11:02:33 up 118 days, 12:10, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extended file atributes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:05:51 -0000 On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 10:57:31AM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > On Sunday 13 August 2006 10:31, stan wrote: > > I was just reading about something called "extended file > > atributes", in Linux. This seems to be a way to store > > arbitray tag -> value pairs in the filesystem, which are > > assocaited with a given file. > > Hello, it's similar, but not identical... see the chflags(1) > and chflags(2) manual pages. > I looked on a 4.x machine. Unless this has been sunstaintaily changed in later versions, it can't store _arbitrary_ values, which is what I was looking for. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)