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Subject:    [haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #9940: Merge configure --use-xattr and --use-xattr-ref functionality
From:       "bonefish" <trac () haiku-os ! org>
Date:       2013-08-25 14:11:18
Message-ID: 043.74e487aae622895ee7e8b58da731f9b2 () haiku-os ! org
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#9940: Merge configure --use-xattr and --use-xattr-ref functionality
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 Reporter:  bonefish      |        Owner:  bonefish
     Type:  bug           |       Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:  R1
Component:  Build System  |      Version:  R1/Development
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 Blocking:                |  Has a Patch:  0
 Platform:  All           |
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 When xattr support is available, the attribute emulation should behave
 like the current `--use-xattr`, i.e. store the attributes in untyped
 attributes. Only when for a file the attribute size limit is hit, the
 emulation should -- for that file only -- fall back to the `--use-xattr-
 ref` behavior, i.e. tag the file with a unique ID and store the attributes
 in separate files. A similar fallback mechanism could be used for
 symlinks, for which non-super-users cannot write attributes on Linux.

 The proposed algorithm should help to reduce the number of attribute files
 needed (and thus potentially leaked) significantly, since there shouldn't
 be that many files for which we actually encounter the common attribute
 size limit.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9940>
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