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+ Solaris Extended Attributes
+
+In solaris extended attributes are logically supported as files
+within the filesystem. The file system is therefore augmented
+with an orthogonal namespace of file attributes. Attribute values
+are accessed by file descriptors obtained through a special attribute
+interface. This type of logical view of "attributes as files" allows
+the leveraging of existing file system interface functionality to
+support the construction, deletion and manipulation of attributes.
+
+But as we have tested through this functionality provided by Solaris
+we have come accross two major issues as written below.
+
+1. Symlink XATTR_NOFOLLOW not present for creating extended attributes
+ directly on the symlinks like other platforms Linux,MAC-OSX,BSD etc.
+ An implementation is present for O_NOFOLLOW for "openat()" call sets
+ up errno ELOOP whenever encountered with a symlink and also another
+ implementation AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW which is not present for calls like
+ "attropen(), openat()"
+
+ a snippet of test code which helped us understand this behaviour
+ --------------------------------------
+ attrfd = attropen (path, key,
+ flags|AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW|O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_NOFOLLOW, 0777);
+ if (attrfd >= 0) {
+ ftruncate (attrfd, 0);
+ ret = write (attrfd, value, size);
+ close (attrfd);
+ } else {
+ fprintf (stderr, "Couldn't set extended attribute for %s (%d)\n",
+ path, errno);
+ }
+ --------------------------------------
+
+2. Extended attribute support for special files like device files, fifo files
+ is not supported under solaris.
+
+Apart from these glitches almost everything regarding porting functionality
+for extended attribute calls has been properly implemented in compat.c
+with writing wrapper around functions over
+"attropen()", "openat()", "unlinkat()"
+
+
+