Review Request 117830: disable extended attributes support on windows

[Thomas Lübking]

> On April 28, 2014, 12:41 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > I'm a little surprised that NTFS doesn't support xattr, but sure!

NTFS /does/ support xattr (on ntfs-3g), but WinNT does support infinite length xattr via ADS only, so basically xattr invocation would have to be ported for Windows.


- Thomas


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On April 28, 2014, 9:58 a.m., Patrick Spendrin wrote:
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> (Updated April 28, 2014, 9:58 a.m.)
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> Review request for Baloo and kdewin.
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> Repository: baloo
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> Description
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> At the moment, there is no support available for extended attributes for Windows/NTFS. So we simply disable it.
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> Diffs
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>   src/file/lib/baloo_xattr_p.h fefc3d9 
>   src/file/lib/xattrdetector.cpp 9bff838 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117830/diff/
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> Testing
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> windows msvc 2010
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> Thanks,
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> Patrick Spendrin
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