Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray Date: 23 Jan 2015 23:14:21 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <1lyi997.xex7dh1r8ghuqN%nmassello@yahoo.com> <54c12feb$0$24588$c3e8da3$f6268168@news.astraweb.com> <54c2602c$0$1156$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net 8Agq1AHcmODBYzY1waULDwVsubx3tWXANTrqC50UXoLKaLIlfV Cancel-Lock: sha1:qfb0I3faD4noRrHk6igsiMOex0U= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:68819 On 2015-01-23, Oregonian Haruspex wrote: > > That's up to the user, and not Apple. At least, in the Unix > philosophy, it should be. In the Steve era at least these kinds of > processes had man pages informing you that the process was not meant to > be interacted with by the user. Bullshit. The xattr tool sis just one of many examples showing how wrong you are. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR