Revision history for Perl extension File::ExtAttr.

1.09 2009-03-07

• (richdawe) Add note to README about needing to install

  package that provides the headers <attr/attributes.h> and <attr/xattr.h>.

• (richdawe) Fix RT #31970: "OS X: setfattr fails to set empty value".

  According to the CPAN Testers results, this works on Mac OS X 10.5.

                 Skip the "empty" tests on Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier.
                 Document issue.

• (richdawe) Fix #34394: "Test suite should skip on filesystems

  with no xattr support when run non-interactively" on Linux.

                 When run interactively, it will suggest what you need
                 to do, to get the test suite to pass.

• (richdawe) Fix RT #37889: "Crash when operating on a closed file handle

  on Solaris". This was due to using an uninitialised directory handle.

1.08 2008-08-19

• (richdawe) Add a typemap for usage of "const char *" in the XS.

  This may help fix the build with Perl 5.6.x or earlier.

• (richdawe) Remove NetBSD 3.x from list of supported OSes,

  since File::ExtAttr's test suite will never pass on it.

• (richdawe) Update Makefile.PL to fail more gracefully when the build

  pre-requisites are not present. On Linux use Devel::CheckLib to check for libattr. Also exit more gracefully if libattr's headers are not present.

• (richdawe) OpenBSD isn't supported, so bail gracefully

  in Makefile.PL on that platform.

• (richdawe) Make sure that the errno value from any failed

  system calls is propagated into $! (#32679, #32680).

• (richdawe) File::ExtAttr no longer generate noisy warnings

  when an xattr system call fails. All error reporting is now via the function return values and $!.

• (richdawe) Operations with non-default or non-"user" namespaces

  will now fail with EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOATTR on Mac OS X, *BSD and Solaris. This behaviour matches the behaviour on Linux.

• (richdawe) Added a note to the documentation about Solaris

  extensible system attributes, which are different to extended file attributes.

1.07 2007-12-15

• (richdawe) Bugfix: When the attribute value was empty, getfattr()

  returned garbage. Fixed. (Reported by Joe Stewart -- thanks!)

• (richdawe) Change my contact details.

1.06 2007-11-04

• (richdawe) Bugfix: Builds and works again on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
• (richdawe) Fix typo in t/33nslong.t, which caused it to fail

  on Mac OS X.

1.05 2007-08-13

• (richdawe) Fix META.yml so that it's valid. Add a test using

  Test::YAML::Meta to the test suite, to validate META.yml.

• (richdawe) Fix RT #27864: "Tests fail with nl_NL locale set".
• (richdawe) Add test cases for setting attributes on directories,

  by filename.

• (richdawe) Bugfix: Fix a memory leak in getfattr(). The memory was

  leaked when the function failed, e.g.: if it was called with the name of a non-existent attribute.

1.04 2007-05-06

• (richdawe) OpenBSD does not support extended attributes --

  fail the build on OpenBSD; documentation updates.

• (richdawe) Really fix build for NetBSD 3.x. Update the test suite

  to skip tests on NetBSD 3.1 or earlier, since NetBSD 4.0 is the first version to actually have filesystem support for extended attributes.

1.03 2007-04-27

• (richdawe) Fix RT #26542: "Tests fail with taint-mode

  and ATTR_TEST_DIR set"; also document ATTR_TEST_DIR.

• (richdawe) Build fix for NetBSD, OpenBSD: Use strerror()

  if strerror_r() is not available.

1.02 2007-04-06

• (richdawe) Fix listfattr() so it works on Linux. Thanks to rafl

  and Jonathan Rockway for the patch!

• (richdawe) Add test cases for listfattr().
• (richdawe) Fix warning in listfattr(), listfattrns()

  when operating on a file handle.

1.01 2006-10-02

• (richdawe) Fix brown paper bag bugs in MANIFEST that broke the build.

1.00 2006-10-02

• (richdawe) Add support for Solaris 10.
• (richdawe) Add support for File::ExtAttr::Tie on *BSD.
• (richdawe) API change: Namespace and the create/replace flag

  are now passed via a hash. This breaks API compatibility for both File::ExtAttr and File::ExtAttr::Tie.

                 One API change remains: using exceptions rather
                 than warnings to report errors.

• (richdawe) Fix RT #21214: "ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations

  and code"

NOTE: This relase has not been built or tested on Mac OS X.

0.05 2006-05-27

• (richdawe) Add support for FreeBSD 6.0. This may also work

  with NetBSD >= 4.0 and OpenBSD > 3.8.

• (richdawe) All *fattr functions now take some optional flags.
• (richdawe) Add File::ExtAttr::Tie for tied access to extattrs;

  thanks to David Leadbeater!

0.04 2006-01-20

• (richdawe) Add Mac OS X support; thanks to Jonathan Rockway!
• (richdawe) Add a check to Makefile.PL for libattr's headers on Linux.
• (richdawe) Requirement on Perl 5.8.5 is spurious; remove it.

0.03 2006-01-01

• (richdawe) Rename to File::ExtAttr from Linux::xattr
• (richdawe) Bugfix: XATTR_* were not found correctly in XS.
• (richdawe) Bugfix: Off-by-one buffer overflow in XS for getfattr().
• (richdawe) Split the tests up, to make them more granular.
• (richdawe) Final parameter of setfattr() is now optional.
• (richdawe) Support specifying file using an IO::Handle.

0.02 2005-11-15

• (kg) changing to use system functions instead of compatability functions
• (kg) fixing strlen stuff in get and set
• (kg) exporting constants

0.01 Wed Nov 9 08:57:42 2005

• original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options

  -O -n Linux::xattr Linux-xattr/mylib/xattrlib.h