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Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:39:08 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Exclude System entries with "ls" or "find"
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On Dec 19 08:29, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 12/19/2018 7:10 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> >=20
> > > Bottom line is, if you want to handle DOS attributes in a special way
> > > not covered by our POSIX emulation, user space has to do it.
> >=20
> > Can something be implemented around getfattr to serve this use case in =
a more
> > POSIX'y way?
>=20
> I was not previously much aware of get/setfattr, but I agree that that lo=
oks
> like a possible way to provide access to the Windows SYS attribute and fr=
iends.
> Not that I am that familiar with details of what NTFS, etc., provide, get=
fattr
> may be a way to provide access to additional attributes / facts about fil=
es
> (paths, generally) as well.  Sounds like it would not be too hard to supp=
ort
> access to the basic attributes this way.
>=20
> I suspect the general response will be PTC, though!  :-)

Not only that.  attr is an upstream package, so you would have to=20
convince the upstream maintainers to take your patches, ideally.

attr is for handling of extended attributes, quite different from
DOS attributes.  I doubt that DOS attribs fit in there.


Corinna

--=20
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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