[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="xattr: extended attributes"]] [[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_hurd]] This task is listed as a [[Google Summer of Code project idea|community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr]]. IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-06-01: <gnu_srs> Another thing: the lsattr and chattr programs seems to be bogus on Hurd. Are they present since they are part of e2fsprogs? <youpi> I don't think the Hurd has an interface for it <tschwinge> gnu_srs, youpi: lsattr/chattr are extended attributes, right? We do have some patches from years ago for adding some support in glibc, but they're not yet integrated. And also we do have a plan for using these instead of our Hurd-specific passive translator information in inodes. If interested in working on this, talk to [[tschwinge]], and see these resources: * [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5503]], [[!GNU_Savannah_patch 5126]] * <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-02/threads.html#00115>, <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-01/threads.html#00180>, <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-05/threads.html#00042> * <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg07260.html>, <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg07259.html>, <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg07261.html> IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-03-18: <pinotree> notes to self: it seems our ext2 driver comes from linux 2.3.42 or so, and in linux 2.5.46 ext2/ext3 get xattr and acl support