patch 9.0.1962: No support for writing extended attributesv9.0.1962

Problem:  No support for writing extended attributes
Solution: Add extended attribute support for linux

It's been a long standing issue, that if you write a file with extended
attributes and backupcopy is set to no, the file will loose the extended
attributes.

So this patch adds support for retrieving the extended attributes and
copying it to the new file. It currently only works on linux, mainly
because I don't know the different APIs for other systems (BSD, MacOSX and
Solaris).  On linux, this should be supported since Kernel 2.4 or
something, so this should be pretty safe to use now.

Enable the extended attribute support with normal builds.

I also added it explicitly to the :version output as well as make it
able to check using `:echo has("xattr")`, to have users easily check
that this is available.

In contrast to the similar support for SELINUX and SMACK support (which
also internally uses extended attributes), I have made this a FEAT_XATTR
define, instead of the similar HAVE_XATTR.

Add a test and change CI to include relevant packages so that CI can
test that extended attributes are correctly written.

closes: #306
closes: #13203

Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/errors.h b/src/errors.h
index 6b4416963a..16b38cf99a 100644
--- a/src/errors.h
+++ b/src/errors.h
@@ -3552,6 +3552,14 @@ EXTERN char e_positional_arg_num_type_inconsistent_str_str[]
 	INIT(= N_("E1504: Positional argument %d type used inconsistently: %s/%s"));
 EXTERN char e_invalid_format_specifier_str[]
 	INIT(= N_("E1505: Invalid format specifier: %s"));
-// E1506 - E1519 unused
+EXTERN char e_xattr_erange[]
+	INIT(= N_("E1506: Buffer too small to copy xattr value or key"));
+EXTERN char e_xattr_enotsup[]
+	INIT(= N_("E1507: Extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem"));
+EXTERN char e_xattr_e2big[]
+	INIT(= N_("E1508: size of the extended attribute value is larger than the maximum size allowed"));
+EXTERN char e_xattr_other[]
+	INIT(= N_("E1509: error occured when reading or writing extended attribute"));
+// E1509 - E1519 unused
 EXTERN char e_aptypes_is_null_nr_str[]
 	INIT(= "E1520: Internal error: ap_types or ap_types[idx] is NULL: %d: %s");