[Toybox] [PATCH] macOS: numerous fixes.

enh enh at google.com
Fri Jun 7 23:19:26 PDT 2019


On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:17 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On 6/8/19 1:02 AM, enh wrote:
> > i found today looking at the xattr stuff that they deprecated
> > syscall(2). my original plan was to not include the mac <sys/xattr.h>
> > and use syscall to implement the linux API.
>
> They here being... apple?

yeah. deprecated in macOS 10.12 iirc from the header file.

(from what i can tell FreeBSD doesn't have xattrs at all.)

> > (not that i need any of the process stuff --- that's only used for
> > human-readable debugging when things go wrong.)
>
> Debuggability is a big deal.

aye, but for context i've never personally seen any of this. but,
yeah, there's probably someone on the build team who cares deeply :-)

> Rob



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