I once wrote a small KDE app to manipulate ACLs, i don't recall where i got the
documentation from to get started, but you can get somewhere with 'man -k acl'.
That covered ACLs, but not EAs.
Scott Fagg <scott.fagg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Arup Brisbane
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>>> Alessandro Bottoni <alessandrobottoni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 26/11/2003 3:49:45 AM
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Well, I'm a newbie, so here is the usual list of newbie questions :-)
- Is there any (readable/understandable) example of the use of EA and/or ACL
from within a C or C++ client program?
- Is there any other C++ (or even a "simplified C") wrapper for the C/ioctl
XFS API beside the one supplied by libferris?
- Is there any Python/Perl/Ruby binding of the XFS EA/ACL API?
- Is there any programmer's guide or any tutorial?
Just to reassure you I read the available docu before bothering you:
- "Some functionality specific to the XFS filesystem is accessible to
applications through the Linux ioctl(2) interface." (from "man 5 xfs"). =>
Any example for mere mortals?
- "The http://witme.sourceforge.net/libferris.web/ has tools for accessing
Extended Attributes including writing to XFS Extended Attributes." (from XFS
FAQ page) => The link to "what are ACL" and other pages are broken... Any
other docu available?
And...
- So far, I found just one client program that uses XFS EAs: DoXFS (a document
management program that is available at sourceforge.net). Is there any other
program that uses EA and/or ACL?
- I found a whirlwind intro to XFS at IBM developerworks, as well. Nice but
very introductory.
BTW: does anybody know if there is any SCM (CVS-like or, more precisely,
ClearCase-like) program based on XFS? I would have expected that the
ClearCase-clone "Katie" (http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/katie/) used it
but, apparently, it uses its own EA/ACL technology.
Many thanks in advance.
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