Leopard's ls

[LuKreme]

On 9-Nov-2007, at 09:59, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007, at 08:27 , LuKreme wrote:
>> Ran across something interesting when doing an ls in the shell:
>>
>> 0 drwxrwxr-x@
>> 0 drwxrwxr-x@
>> 0 drwxrwxr-x
>> 0 drwxrwxr-x
>> 0 drwxrwxr-x+
>>
>> From the man page:
>>
>> If the file or directory has extended attributes, the permissions  
>> field printed by the -l option is followed by a '@' character.   
>> Otherwise, if the file or directory has extended security  
>> information, the permissions field printed by the -l option is  
>> followed by a '+' character.
>>
>> so, what exactly do 'extended attributes' and 'extended security  
>> information' mean? Are we talking about ACLs?
>
> Try 'man GetFileInfo'; that may provide something useful.

Those are file attributes that every file has.  The ls man page refers  
to EXTENDED attributes.

>

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