X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:00:27 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Extended attribute support - xattr.h Message-ID: <20071126100027.GA16357@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Nov 25 16:05, Rob Bosch wrote: > Are extended attributes supported under cygwin? My development environment > keeps returning a failure when attempting to use extended attributes in > rsync when running configure. No, Cygwin does not support EAs using the (non-standard) functions from xattr.h. We have code for reading and writing EAs, but it's unused right now. There's no intention to implement these functions at all, given the lack of manpower this project suffers. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC http://cygwin.com/contrib.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/