[Tux3] Extended attributes have landed in tux3.c

[Daniel Phillips]

On Friday 12 September 2008 00:00, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> If it's not compiled in... because you don't have the header files...

The hard part is actually detecting that in a way that works on all
Linux distros.  Pkg-config is supposed to be that way, but the libxattr
package ignores it.  That's ok because I found a way to hack the compile
with standard libc headers, and Tero showed that it was correct.

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 23:54, Daniel Phillips <phillips at phunq.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 September 2008 23:46, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> >> man setxattr: If extended attributes are not supported by the
> >> filesystem, or are disabled, errno is set to ENOTSUP.
> >
> > Any reason we should ever disable them?  I can't think of any
> > reason to make xattr support optional, particularly with the plan
> > being to use largely the same mechanism as regular file data.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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