Re: Bash-4.3-beta2 available for FTP

[Lionel Cons]

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.

Lionel