Proposal: Extended Attribute support in Kioslave: File

[David Faure]

On Friday 05 May 2006 08:31, Daniel Nakata wrote:
> As an initial step toward my goal of saturating KDE with support for extended 
> attributes, I'd like to suggest the following modifications to the kdelibs 
> codebase:
> 
> 1) Add --enable-xattr to configure(.in(.in)), and have it define HAVE_XATTR, 
> if -lattr works (libattr is available).  If so, add "-lattr" to LIBS.

In trunk we use cmake, so no configure.in.in anymore.
In any case we check for libattr anymore (in both kde3 and kde4), due to the ACL support.
We don't check for attr/xattr.h though, but for sys/xattr.h...

> How does this sound?  I'm willing to write it up if there's a chance it would 
> make it into KDE officially.

This sounds good for kdelibs trunk (kde4).

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).