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Re: Exclude System entries with "ls" or "find"
On 2018-12-19 07:43, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> On Dec 19 08:29, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>> On 12/19/2018 7:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>> Bottom line is, if you want to handle DOS attributes in a special way
>>>>> not covered by our POSIX emulation, user space has to do it.
>>>> Can something be implemented around getfattr to serve this use case in a more
>>>> POSIX'y way?
>>> I was not previously much aware of get/setfattr, but I agree that that looks
>>> like a possible way to provide access to the Windows SYS attribute and friends.
>>> Not that I am that familiar with details of what NTFS, etc., provide, getfattr
>>> may be a way to provide access to additional attributes / facts about files
>>> (paths, generally) as well. Sounds like it would not be too hard to support
>>> access to the basic attributes this way.
>>> I suspect the general response will be PTC, though! :-)
>> Not only that. attr is an upstream package, so you would have to
>> convince the upstream maintainers to take your patches, ideally.
>> attr is for handling of extended attributes, quite different from
>> DOS attributes. I doubt that DOS attribs fit in there.
> Well, well. We do have a living example of Samba (ab)using xattr to support
> Windows ACL on *NIX.
> I deduce from your response, that a DOS attributes use case would be on
> different side of the table, though.
While WSL uses Windows EAs to support POSIX stattributes[sic].
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