[patch 2/3] add attribute configuration message

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> This patch adds a new extended request with which the client can
> request which attributes it wants to receive.  By default only the
> basic attributes are transferred, but the client can request that any
> subset of the basic or extra attributes to be sent.  Attributes can be
> selected separately for STAT and READDIR requests.
> 
> Also there's a flag to turn off the generation of long names in
> READDIR requests.
> 
> The server also sends the attributes it can actually support in the
> attribute configuration reply so the client may make decisions based
> on the server's capabilities.

Very nice! Could you please attach this to a bug on
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/ too?

attrconfig would make it much nicer to support named users and groups
semi-efficently.

-d