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Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:41:05 +0100
From:	Dave Korn <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT googlemail DOT com>
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Dave Korn wrote:

>   I downloaded ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/attr_2.4.43-1.tar.gz
> and found it builds OOTB, but my first attempt to use setfattr got me an error:
> 
>> $ ./setfattr/.libs/setfattr.exe -n bar -v baz foo
>> setfattr: foo: Operation not supported
> 
>   Nor was getfattr capable of showing me the attributes I set in the windows
> explorer file properties "summary" tab.  

  Ah, looks like Cygwin only supports xattr on Samba filesystems.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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