Re: [bug #64605] Add support for extended attributes

[Morgan Weetman]

Thanks for the mention Raf, unfortunately I'm not much of a developer so
addressing the concerns with my patch was a bit out of my league. I'm happy
to assist if anyone wants to try and get it rebased/updated.

cheers

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 12:38, raf <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> wrote:

> Follow-up Comment #1, bug #64605 (project findutils):
>
> Hi, This has come up before: #58941 (and to a lesser extent #64253). There
> is
> a patch from seven years ago and some list discussion but there are some
> issues with it. It looks promising but it seems that it went quiet five
> years
> ago.
>
> Have a look at #58941. There is a link to a version of findutils by Morgan
> Weetman on gitlab that has an -xattr predicate, and there is a link to the
> mailing list discussion. Perhaps you could use Morgan Weetman's version.
>
> Until the issues are resolved, another alternative is my rawhide (rh)
> program
> (https://codeberg.org/raforg/rawhide). It's another file finder that can
> do
> almost everything that GNU find does (except -fstype), and it can also
> search
> by extended attributes (names and values), and by access control lists
> ("POSIX" style (for Linux/macOS/Cygwin) and NFSv4 style (for
> FreeBSD/Solaris)), and by ext2-style file attributes or BSD-style file
> flags
> (e.g., immutable, append_only), and by libmagic filetypes/mimetypes.
>
> There are some commercial versions of find (macOS/Solaris) that can search
> for
> files that have extended attributes but they can only search by the
> existence
> of EAs or by their names, not by their values.
>
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