File-ExtAttr version 0.03
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File::ExtAttr is a Perl module providing access to the extended attributes
of files.

Extended attributes are metadata associated with a file.
Examples are access control lists (ACLs) and other security parameters.
But users can add their own key=value pairs.

Extended attributes may not be supported by your operating system.
This module is aimed at Linux, Unix or Unix-like operating systems
(e.g.: Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD).

Extended attributes may also not be supported by your filesystem
or require special options to be enabled for a particular filesystem
(e.g. "mount -o user_xattr /dev/hda1 /some/path").

Please see the POD documentation for more detailed information
("perldoc File::ExtAttr").

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

Installation requires a C compiler.

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Carp
  Scalar::Util

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Kevin M. Goess

Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 by Richard Dawe

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
