Use an EA to store dos attributes

[Marc Kaplan]

I don't have one, but if one is not already a viable one available maybe we
(team at Snap) would work on one. We could really use this support, and I
know others could too.

			-Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simo Sorce [mailto:simo.sorce at xsec.it]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:08 AM
> To: Marc Kaplan
> Cc: 'jra at samba.org'; 'tridge at samba.org'; 'Multiple recipients of list
> SAMBA-TECHNICAL'; 'jerry at samba.org'; Ravi Wijayaratne; Dan Burrows;
> Kevin Osborn
> Subject: Re: Use an EA to store dos attributes
> 
> 
> If you have a patch please post it, it has been also on my 
> wishlist for
> looong time now.
> 
> Simo.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 19:49, Marc Kaplan wrote:
> > Jeremy,
> > 
> > Now that we're using EAs where available to store whether 
> the file/folder's
> > ACL was inherited, can we also consider storing the dos 
> attributes in an EA,
> > rather than masking the file permissions? It seems like a 
> cleaner solution
> > then changing ACLs/perms (on Read-only set)/looking for some magical
> > combination of Perms/ACLs (to present Read-only). There are 
> other situations
> > where this would also help, for example: the hidden 
> attribute cannot be set
> > on directories (actually, I'm having trouble getting it to 
> stick on files
> > too!). If the system has extended attributes, why not use 
> them for this
> > purpose?
> > 
> > Actually, I just searched through my old Samba Technical 
> mail, and I found
> > that you said that you were considering it for 3.0 (mail 
> sent on: Friday
> > 3/21/03). If you do want it in 3.0, would you accept a 
> patch? Or do you want
> > to do this work your self?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 			-Marc
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