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2014-04-21Initial draft xattr supportPeter Seebach
Initial, incomplete, support for extended attributes. Extended attributes are implemented fairly naively, using a second table in the file database using the primary file table's id as a foreign key. The ON DELETE CASCADE behavior requires sqlite 3.6.19 or later with foreign key and trigger support compiled in. To reduce round-trips, the client does not check for existing attributes, but rather, sends three distinct set messages; OP_SET_XATTR, OP_CREATE_XATTR, OP_REPLACE_XATTR. A SET message always succeeds, a CREATE fails if the attribute already exists, and a REPLACE fails if the attribute does not already exist. The /* flags */ feature of makewrappers is used to correct path names appropriately, so all functions are already working with complete paths, and can always use functions that work on links; if they were supposed to dereference, the path fixup code got that. The xattr support is enabled, for now, conditional on whether getfattr --help succeeds. Not yet implemented: Translation for system.posix_acl_access, which is used by "cp -a" (or "cp --preserve-all") on some systems to try to copy modes. Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com>
2011-03-25Merge in ports workPeter Seebach
This is a spiffied-up rebase of a bunch of intermediate changes, presented as a whole because it is, surprisingly, less confusing that way. The basic idea is to separate the guts code into categories ranging from generic stuff that can be the same everywhere and specific variants. The big scary one is the Darwin support, which actually seems to run okay on 64-bit OS X 10.6. (No other variants were tested.) The other example given is support for the old clone() syscall on RHEL 4, which affects some wrlinux use cases. There's a few minor cleanup bits here, such as a function with inconsistent calling conventions, but nothing really exciting.