Re: Bash-4.3-beta2 available for FTP

[Lionel Cons]

On 16 October 2013 14:19, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 October 2013 22:44, Joshuah Hurst <joshhurst@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>>> On 10/15/13 4:27 PM, Joshuah Hurst wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> What happened to the patch for cd -@ to handle NFSv4+Windows alternate
>>>>>> streams? ksh93 already has this feature since quite some time and
>>>>>> they're now even extending support even further to the builtin POSIX
>>>>>> commands...
>>>
>>> I have not added it to bash yet.
>>
>> How long does it take?
>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean cd -@ as this one in ksh?
>>>>> - - - - - - - -
>>>>>   -@              Change into the hidden attribute directory of directory 
>>>>> which
>>>>>                   may also be a file. CDPATH is ignored. Hidden attribute
>>>>>                   directories are file system and operating system 
>>>>> specific.
>>>>> - - - - - - - -
>>>>>
>>>>> That would be great. Where's the patch?
>>>>
>>>> Just to be sure, this does use the extended attributes with O_XATTR, right?
>>>
>>> Yes, Cedric's patch uses O_XATTR.
>>
>> *Great*! :)
>>
>> Chester/Cedric: Can you send the patch around so we can ask the Debian
>> GNU/kOpenSolaris, Solaris and Illumos folks to integrate the patch in
>> their next bash patch update, please?
>
> Chet: We're interested in the patch, too. We're actively use and rely
> on NFSv4 extended attributes for two of our main projects and I'd like
> to have a 2nd source of this feature. Primarily we use ksh93, perl and
> HPC applications for this but I'd like to have a fallback option for
> ksh93 for now.

Any news on this one?

Lionel