[Box Backup] OS X xattr backups

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:30:50 +0100 (BST)


Hi Eric,

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Eric Cronin wrote:

> Also, more annoying than the failure on the file was that bbackupd would 
> never get past that file to back up the rest of my config...  It looks 
> like in your patch the attrs too large problem becomes a non-fatal error 
> by not throwing an exception?  That would be great.

Yes, that's right. I'm glad it works for you. I'm still not sure that 10k 
is a reasonable buffer size though, or exactly what to do if it's not big 
enough. The API for (l)listxattr sucks. :-(

Cheers, Chris.
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