From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
To: Dan Am <xfs@lonx.net>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: "xfs_io -c chattr +i " on a symlink
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:13:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D30FAD.5070704@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39340.62.159.242.114.1154679319.squirrel@otto.lonx.net>
Dan Am wrote:
> On Fri, August 4, 2006 6:20 am, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>> I always disliked open/ioctl for this. I think we should actually have
>> a separate syscall for chattr, etc. (FreeBSD does this I think?)
>
> So how does "attr -s someAttribute symlink" work ? This does the job very
> well, distinguishing it from other filesystems.
>
attr(1) sets the extended attribute and they are set by system calls.
It looks like you would need the -L option to attr(1) which ends up
calling the lsetxattr() syscall via the libattr library.
(Inode attributes shouldn't be confused with extended attributes, EAs, -
a cause of much confusion for me and others in the past :)
--Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-04 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-04 8:15 "xfs_io -c chattr +i " on a symlink Dan Am
2006-08-04 9:13 ` Timothy Shimmin [this message]
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2006-08-03 10:26 Dan Am
2006-08-03 14:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-08-04 0:29 ` Nathan Scott
2006-08-04 2:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-08-04 11:37 ` Dan Am
2006-08-07 4:54 ` Nathan Scott
2006-08-04 0:28 ` Nathan Scott
2006-08-04 4:20 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-03 10:18 Daniel Amthor
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