Integrated: JDK-8030048: (fs) Support UserDefinedFileAttributeView/extended attributes on OS X / HFS+

[Sebastian Stenzel]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:17:16 GMT, Sebastian Stenzel <github.com+1204330+overheadhunter at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This adds support for UserDefinedFileAttributeView on macOS 10.4 and newer.
> 
> While the main audience for this will probably be macOS users, the relevant changes take place in (mostly existing) classes carrying BSD in their names as none of this is really macOS-specific.
> 
> Code is mostly copied from the Linux implementation except for three differences:
> 1. max length for attribute names is 127 bytes
> 2. we know for sure that APFS and HFS+ support extended attributes, therefore we [simply return `true`](https://github.com/skymatic/jdk/blob/7a3619df12853bd3a44e4f49c98f35e15bceb652/src/java.base/macosx/classes/sun/nio/fs/BsdFileStore.java#L114-L118) from `supportsFileAttributeView(UserDefinedFileAttributeView.class)` for these two FS types, while for all other types support is determined experimentally in [`isExtendedAttributesEnabled(...)`](https://github.com/skymatic/jdk/blob/7a3619df12853bd3a44e4f49c98f35e15bceb652/src/java.base/macosx/classes/sun/nio/fs/BsdFileStore.java#L83-L100)
> 3. For the aforementioned check the new `UnixConstants.ENOATTR` is added, which [seems to be macOS and BSD-specific](https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2012/04/30/msg013090.html).
> 
> As discussed in the mailing list, for ease of tracking changes it is not a goal of this patch to modernize the existing Linux implementation, nor to deduplicate anything.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: afd3f78a
Author:    Sebastian Stenzel <sebastian.stenzel at skymatic.de>
Committer: Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/afd3f78a
Stats:     204 lines in 7 files changed: 198 ins; 0 del; 6 mod

8030048: (fs) Support UserDefinedFileAttributeView/extended attributes on OS X / HFS+

Reviewed-by: alanb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2017