The latest rsync change disables xattr when there is no lgetxattr()
function.
There is however, an option of the getxattr function to act on the
symlink.
XATTR_NOFOLLOW do not follow symbolic links. getxattr() normally
returns information from the target of path if
it is a
symbolic link. With this option, getxattr()
will return
extended attribute data from the symbolic link
instead.
Is it possible to have xattr support back for Mac OSX.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:32:59AM +0200, Alan Snelgrove wrote:> The latest rsync change disables xattr when there is no lgetxattr() > function.That was just configure's guessing code when the user didn't specify either --enable-xattr-support or --disable-xattr-support. I have improved this code further so that it should guess if the xattr libraries are around correctly on both OS X and FreeBSD. ..wayne..