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

[Christopher Petrilli]

On 5/4/05, Dethe Elza <delza at livingcode.org> wrote:
> > 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.

Not to nit-pick, but multi-fork and metadata have existed on the Mac
since HFS's introduction in, I believe 1985/1986 timeframe.  BeOS took
it much much further, but even the Mac was based on the meta-data
ideas that existed in the Star and Alto designs.

In many ways, we're still trying to get to the 1970s.

Chris
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