Making rsync compile under Mac OS X 10.3.9 with extended attributes

[Matt McCutchen]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 20:35 +0100, Vitorio Machado wrote:
> I've decided to implement resource fork from the carbon API. The code  
> is not ready at all, but I've made a draft here: http:// 
> shared.and.free.fr/sysxattrs_draft080127.c
> So all metadata attribute that can be accessed with getattrlist will  
> be (finder info, flags, permissions, dates, etc).
> And particularly for the resource fork, that hopelessly can't be  
> accessed this way, I'll implement it with the carbon framework.
> With something like this:
> 1) open the resource fork giving all args needed for the FSOpenFork  
> function
> 2) copying the resource fork into the value buffer
> 3) closing all stuff correctly and giving to the upper layer the  
> resource fork as if it was get from the getxattr
> 
> I think things are in the right way. Comments about the carbon choice  
> (I've never coded something using carbon) and the begin of  
> implementation in the source code are as always welcome. I'm not a  
> pro and there is maybe a simpler way to do this. So, please don't let  
> me work uselessly if you know something I don't :)

I looked at the draft code.  The approach for the resource fork looks
right, but I think a lot of the attributes you have shouldn't be
included.  There's no point in getting read-only attributes because they
can't be set on the destination.  Rsync already handles many of the
other attributes other ways; it might eventually handle them through
get/setattrlist for performance, but there's no point in exposing them
now in the getxattr abstraction layer.  I made the attached spreadsheet
with the statuses of the 13 attributes listed as read/write as well as
the resource fork; corrections are welcome.

Matt
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