Provide sys/xattr.h

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 29 08:04:00 GMT 2011


On Mar 29 03:02, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 09:53 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 29 02:43, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > > I see two ways to resolve this:
> > > 
> > > 1) Move include/attr/xattr.h to include/sys/xattr.h, and ship libattr's
> > > attr/xattr.h in libattr-devel, exactly as is done on Linux:
> > > 
> > > 2) Install a copy of include/attr/xattr.h as <sys/xattr.h>, as in the
> > > attached patch.
> > 
> > What about just creating a file sys/attr.h which includes attr/attr.h?
> 
> Right, that should do it as well.  I was so fixed on the Linux situation
> (where you have two practically identical headers from different
> sources) that I couldn't think of anything else.  I think it's time for
> bed.

No worries.  I've checked that in and will create the 1.7.9 release now.


Thanks,
Corinna

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