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Re: Does coreutils-6.7 'mv' support MacOSX/XCode 'MvMac' tool?
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Does coreutils-6.7 'mv' support MacOSX/XCode 'MvMac' tool? |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:54:45 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
<address@hidden> writes:
> I wonder if Apple is using the FreeBSD /src/bin tree, then, rather than
> configuring coreutils with --prefix=/ ... let me check on that...
As far as I know, FreeBSD mv merely uses acl_get_fd and acl_set_fd for
ACLs, and coreutils should do that stuff fine. (I haven't tested this
on FreeBSD, though.)
As for extended attributes, FreeBSD doesn't support them as far as I
know. Neither does coreutils. Adding this to coreutils portably
would be a bit of pain, as there is no real standard for them. For
example, as I understand it, in MacOS X extended attributes are stored
as forks on HFS+ and are emulated on other file systems, which means
they wouldn't play nicely with the native extended attributes of other
file systems accessed via NFS.
As for forks, I don't see anything in FreeBSD mv to support them, and
coreutils doesn't support them either.