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Extended attributes are arbitrarily named pieces of data associated with
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a file and managed by the file system.
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The names and the values for the attributes are freely chosen by
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applications and/or users, with very few restrictions. Many recent
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systems and filesystems support extended attributes, but the interfaces
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used to manage them are far from identical.
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Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X all provide similar extended attributes
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functionality.
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The pxattr package aims at providing a single interface to extended
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attributes on all three systems. It consists in a single C++ module
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(one source and one include file), which is to be included in the
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application source code, or can be built as a reference command-line
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utility to manage user extended attributes in a uniform and cross-
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platform way. It includes an attributes archive/restore facility.
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WWW: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pxattr/
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