Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Resource forks HFS+

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "DH" == Daniel Hazelbaker <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:50:01 -0700

  DH> Right.. My only real confusion was just from lack of python
  DH> knowledge. I am not sure I am understanding the flow control
  DH> properly, but I guess verbose 5 will tell me that. :)

rdiff-backup uses iterators and generators a lot.  See

http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/whatsnew/node5.html
or
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pycon.html?t=gr,lnxw06=PyIntro

for a quick intro to these.

  DH> Chmod/chown/chgrp work "fine" on the foo/rsrc files. Meaning
  DH> they work without error. In actuality it changes the permissions
  DH> on the true file, though that should not be an issue since the
  DH> source permissions on the data file and resource fork would
  DH> match too.

Hmm, interesting.  How big to resource forks get?  Does OS X still use
them, or is there just legacy support?

  DH> I doubt it, since getxattr/setxattr/listxattr don't exist on OS
  DH> X, atleast they are nowhere to be found in /usr/include/*. Hmm,
  DH> for that matter it doesn't exist on my linux system either. I'll
  DH> have to do some digging and see if I can find out about that.

EA/ACL support isn't in the stock 2.4.x, although some distributions
like Suse have already added them.  Tools, man pages, and kernel
patches are available at http://acl.bestbits.at/.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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