Re: Bash-4.3-beta2 available for FTP

[Joshuah Hurst]

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?

Josh