site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 25, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: Not currently it seems. :( This seems to work already: $ xattr --set fred blue foo $ xattr --set barney red foo $ xattr --list foo foo barney red fred blue $ cp foo bar $ xattr --list bar bar barney red fred blue $ xattr --list ./roundTrip ./roundTrip (no extended attributes) Dan, thanks for these answers! - boyd Boyd Waters National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro, New Mexico _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com [Boyd Waters asked] Is there really no way to copy a file - along with *all* metadata* - in one operation? And probably it's going to be a very long wait, so long as Apple keeps cruft in .DS_Store's as said cruft would need to be copied between source and target .DS_Store's which is a Moreover Spotlight non-comment metadata isn't likely to get copied ever, but probably shouldn't be either; nor is there much value as the kernel can just re-create it. Hmm.. ok, I think I understand about the Spotlight meta-data being re- created: that's determined by the various Spotlight metadata importers, which pull info from the "data-data" of the file and populate various name/value pairs for the Spotlight search tool. I've written such a metadata-importer spec for Spotlight... But I'm more interested in storing other meta-data values in files as POSIX extended attributes, and I want any file operations to preserve those xattrs. So perhaps - for my use cases, anyway - the only thing I need to worry about is file transfer to non-Macintosh servers via ssh or rsync (that is, non-Mac-mounted filesystems). I've patched rsync on my Linux box to handle that, but scp needs a similar patch? (I see that Mac scp has the '-E' flag). $ scp foo host.loopback.edu:test-axttr foo 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00 $ scp host.loopback.edu:test-axttr ./roundTrip test-axttr 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00 smime.p7s