From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4815 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2012 23:46:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16731 Received: (qmail 6010 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2012 23:46:20 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at free.fr does not designate permitted sender hosts) Message-ID: <4F0E1CF6.2090800@free.fr> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:36:22 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lzIFJldm9s?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20120104 Icedove/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: Extended attributes (module and article) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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.