News¶
Version 0.6.0¶
released Mon, 23 Jan 2017
Bugfix and feature release (hence the version bump).
The main change is to the implementation of how attributes are listed and read. This was done due to existing race issues when attributes are modified while being read (github issue #12), but basically all various internal paths that dealt with retrieving an attribute value or listing attributes were unified in a single helper function that does handle such concurrent modifications. As a side effect, the size of the buffers used for such reads have changed, which (depending on attribute value) might change the trade-off between number of syscalls done and memory usage.
As feature release, OSX support was contributed by Adam Knight <adam@movq.us>, thanks a lot! I don’t have access to OSX so the testing for it is done via Travis builds; please report any issues.
Version 0.5.6¶
released Sat, 09 Apr 2016
Small bugfix release:
- Fixes some sign-compare warnings
- Fixes potential name truncation in merge_ns()
- Fixes building on systems which don’t have ENODATA
Tested with Python 2.7.11, Python 3.5.1 and PyPy 5.0.1.
Version 0.5.5¶
released Fri, 01 May 2015
Bugfix release:
- fixes some more memory leaks when handling out-of-memory in get_all() function
- improve error reporting when an attribute disappears after we asked for its length but before we managed to read it
- fix int/size_t issues found by RedHat/Fedora, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127310; the fix is different than their fix, but it should accomplish the same thing
- convert all code to only do explicit casts after checking boundaries, making the code -Wconversion-clean (although that warning is not enabled by default)
Version 0.5.4¶
released Thu, 30 Apr 2015
Fix memory leaks on some of the error-handling paths of the get() function.
Version 0.5.3¶
released Fri, 23 May 2014
Small optimisations release:
- ari edelkind contributed a speed-up optimisation for handling of files without xattrs (which is, in general, the expected case)
- Jonas Borgström contributed a behaviour change to the handling of file names: under Python 3 and up, unicode paths are encoded/decoded using the ‘surogatee’ handler, instead of the ‘strict’ handler; while this can hide encoding errors, it mirrors what Python libraries do (e.g. see os.fsencode/fsdecode)
- Sean Patrick Santos contributed improvements to the test suite so that it can be used even on files systems which have built-in attributes (e.g. when using SELinux, or NFSv4); to enable this, define the attributes in the TEST_IGNORE_XATTRS environment variable
Version 0.5.2¶
released Thu, 03 Jan 2013
Bug-fix release. Thanks to Michał Górny, it looked like the library had problem running under pypy, but actually there was a bug in the PyArg_ParseTuple use of et# (signed vs. unsigned, and lack of compiler warnings). This was fixed, and now the test suite passed with many CPython versions and PyPy (version 1.9).
Version 0.5.1¶
released Wed, 16 May 2012
Bug-fix release. Thanks to Dave Malcolm and his cpychecker tool, a number of significant bugs (refcount leaks and potential NULL-pointer dereferences) have been fixed.
Furthermore, compatibility with Python 3 has been improved; this however
required changing the meaning of the namespace argument to the
functions: if passed, None is no longer a valid value; pass an empty
string if (due to the structure of your program) you have to pass this
argument but want to specify no namespace.
Also, the project home page has changed from SourceForge to GitHub, and the documentation has been converted from epydoc-based to sphinx.
Version 0.5¶
released Sun, 27 Dec 2009
Implemented support for Python 3. This required a significant change to the C module, hence the new version number.
Version 0.4¶
released Mon, 30 Jun 2008
API¶
The old functions ({get,set,list,remove}xattr) are deprecated and replaced with a new API that is namespace-aware and hopefully will allow other OSes (e.g. FreeBSD) to be supported more naturally.
Both the old and the new API are supported in the 0.4 versions, however users are encouraged to migrate to the new API.
New features¶
A new bulk get function called get_all() has been added that should be somewhat faster in case of querying files which have many attributes.
License¶
Since LGPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2 (which unfortunately I didn’t realize before), the license was changed to LGPLv2.1 or later.
Internals¶
Unittest coverage was improved.
Version 0.3¶
released Sun, 09 Mar 2008
- changed licence from GPL to LGPL (3 or later)
- changed listxattr return type from tuple to a list
- developer-related: added unittests
Version 0.2.1¶
released Sat, 11 Feb 2006
- fixed a bug when reading symlink EAs (you weren’t able to do it, actually)
- fixed a possible memory leak when the actual read of the EA failed but the call to get the length of the EA didn’t