From: "François Revol" <revol@free.fr>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Extended attributes (module and article)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:36:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0E1CF6.2090800@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAELbujr2UtYM3B4UP+0EU+1ba6ePjx9S7bpy2Ahct1LwMTA5Uw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/01/2012 21:52, Micah Elliott wrote:
> Hi! I was peeking at the `zsh/attr` module docs and trying to figure
> out why it exists. Is it significantly different from the standard
> getfattr/setfattr/attr utils (which already have nice completions and
> look more featureful)? Does it serve to abstract say Linux's xattr and
> Mac's xattr systems? I'm really only using Linux, but I guess that
> could be a reason to use the zsh module.
>
> Also, does anyone know what's up with this old-but-probably-awesome
> Linux Mag article by Oliver? http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2126/ I swear
> I was reading it fully just last week, but now it's truncated and I
> can't find an archive of it. Oliver -- do you have the original still,
> ideally in a format where LM hasn't html-munged the nice ascii chars
> into mdash, etc.? Oh, here's an archive that looks intact, but still
> should probably be re-posted somewhere where others will find it:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070124200204/http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2126/
>
On this topic I'd propose you to read the paper I wrote for for DC-2011
conf, which describes in length issues with xattrs that none seems to
care about:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2011/paper/view/53
François.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 20:52 Micah Elliott
2012-01-11 21:00 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-01-11 23:36 ` François Revol [this message]
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