[Pythonmac-SIG] MacOS 10.4: getxattr() etc. for Python?

[Dethe Elza]

> The trick is that on Solaris and SELinux they're purely an ACL issue
> as far as I know. I believe Tiger is the first OS to fully deploy an
> abstract meta-data infrastructure in the FS. While ReiserFS has it,
> from what I'm told, it's not widely deployed.

Not entirely true, BeOS pioneered file metadata infrastructure, as  
well as multi-fork files, but OS X may well be the first mainstream  
OS to do so.

--Dethe

"Why is Virtual Reality always posited in terms of space, when time  
is the only real commodity left?" --Rich Gold