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Comment 13 for bug 5158

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Aaron Bentley (abentley) wrote : Re: [Bug 5158] Re: [Bug 5158] Re: [Bug 5158] Re: rfc: don't treat missing files as deleted

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Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:19:02PM -0000, Aaron Bentley wrote:

>>We could certainly try that. I have the impression that extended
>>attributes are rather fragile, though. If even one of the programs you
>>regularly use doesn't respect extended attributes, then the whole thing
>>doesn't work.
>
> It'll only break if one of those programs does weird things moving
> files around.

But everyone does the create/rename update dance: Microsoft Word, Vim,
bzr, you name it. Are you saying all of these apps take care to
preserve extended attributes?

> Extended attributes are getting more important, at least in the
> Windows world so people will be complaining about applications that
> break ea's.

Well, bzr breaks ea's and so far no one's complained...

Aaron
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