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<h1>pxattr: portable extended attributes C++ programming interface</h1>
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<h3 align="center">1.0 </h3><dl class="author" compact><dt><b>Authors:</b></dt><dd>Jean-Francois Dockes <<a href="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">jfd@recoll.org</a>></dd></dl>
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Introduction</a></h2>
Extended attributes are pieces of arbitrarily named data associated with a file and managed by the file system.<p>
The names and the values for the attributes are freely chosen by applications and/or users, with very few restrictions. Most recent systems support extended attributes, but the interfaces used to manage them are far from identical.<p>
Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X all provide similar extended attributes functionality.<p>
The <a class="el" href="namespacepxattr.html" title="Provide a uniform C++ API for extended file attributes on Linux/FreeBSD and MacOSX...">pxattr</a> package aims at providing a single interface to extended attributes on all three systems. It consists in a single C++ module (one source and one include file), which is to be included in the application source code (being too trivial to justify a library).<p>
The C++ file can also be compiled to a command line program, which is both a test tool and a handy way to manage attributes from the command line.<p>
<a class="el" href="namespacepxattr.html" title="Provide a uniform C++ API for extended file attributes on Linux/FreeBSD and MacOSX...">pxattr</a> is free software, with an MIT-type license, use and redistribute freely.<p>
Download <a class="el" href="namespacepxattr.html" title="Provide a uniform C++ API for extended file attributes on Linux/FreeBSD and MacOSX...">pxattr</a>: <a href="pxattr-1.0.4.tar.gz">pxattr-1.0.4.tar.gz</a><p>
<dl class="user" compact><dt><b>Licensing</b></dt><dd>Copyright (c) 2009 Jean-Francois Dockes </dd></dl>
<dl class="user" compact><dt><b></b></dt><dd>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: </dd></dl>
<dl class="user" compact><dt><b></b></dt><dd>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. </dd></dl>
<dl class="user" compact><dt><b></b></dt><dd>THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. </dd></dl>
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