X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:37:15 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {attr/libattr-devel/libattr1}-2.4.43-1 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I just uploaded the new "attr" package to cygwin.com. "attr" is a set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name. "libattr-devel" contains the libraries and header files needed to develop programs which make use of extended attributes. This package provides the libs and headers required to develop using the SGI IRIX compatibility interface. For Cygwin programs, the documented system call API is the recommended interface. While the Cygwin DLL provides these calls, the libattr-devel package provides the man pages for these calls (namely getxattr(2), setxattr(2), listxattr(2), removexattr(2)) for licensing reasons. Currently only NTFS, ext2, ext3 and XFS support extended attributes. The SGI IRIX compatibility API built above the Cygwin system calls is used by programs such as xfsdump(8), xfsrestore(8) and xfs_fsr(8). You should install libattr-devel if you want to develop programs which make use of extended attributes. If you install libattr-devel, you'll also want to install attr. "libattr1" is the run-time package which provides the shared library providing the SGI IRIX compatibility interface. Enjoy, Corinna ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple