Extended attributes

[Pavel Fedin]

 Hello!

> "user." xattrs are supported, but no others.  This is partially to have
> smooth support of  xattrs when using Samba shares.  See the attr
> package and the getxattr, etc. calls in Cygwin's ntea.cc.

 Yes, i have checked that.
 What do you think about adding other possible namespaces (system, security, and... don't remember the 3rd one) ? So that when manipulating UNIX archives etc these attributes could be kept along with files ? At least we have one use case now.

 P.S. Sorry if the message duplicates. I have tried to send it from home, but for some reason it got swallowed.

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia



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