Wine, samba, and xattrs

[Dan Kegel]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Dan Kegel<dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Wine is finally getting around to supporting the DOS hidden, system,
> and archive file attributes.  A draft patch is at
>  http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2009-September/078227.html

Clickable patch body at http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=23509

> It follows the convention used by samba3 for encoding these
> DOS attributes in unix extended attributes.
>
> Question: does it follow the conventions closely enough?
> In particular, it doesn't encode readonly or directory
> attributes in the xattr, nor does it create an xattr for
> files with the default attribute (archive).
> And it doesn't support the encoding used by samba4 at all yet.
> Is that ok for now?
>