Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:27:14 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: J?rgen Blomberg <jnbg@blomberg.tk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extended file atributes Message-ID: <20060813182714.GA19015@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <44DF60B5.6030701@blomberg.tk> References: <20060813143104.GC12959@teddy.fas.com> <44DF60B5.6030701@blomberg.tk>
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On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 07:26:13PM +0200, J?rgen Blomberg wrote: > 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. > > > > Can this be done in FreeBSd? > > > Yes, have a look at setextattr(8) and extattr(9). Excelent, thanks. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
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