[Unison-hackers] Unison and extended attributes (xattr) on Tiger?

Alan Schmitt alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org
Thu Jun 22 08:18:21 EDT 2006


On 22 juin 06, at 14:14, Alan Schmitt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if Unison is copying over extended attributes (as  
> described here for instance: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/ 
> macosx-10.4.ars/7 ). It seems that rsync is able to copy them  
> (using the -E flag), and cp and mv work as expected, but I do not  
> see them being synchronized.

As a followup I found some code on Apple's site to read, remove, and  
set these attributes:

http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/filesystem_examples/listing3.html
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/filesystem_examples/listing4.html
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/filesystem_examples/listing5.html

Alan

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