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| author | Stefan Tomanek <stefan.tomanek@wertarbyte.de> | 2010-11-05 12:39:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2010-11-05 13:59:10 +0100 |
| commit | fbf51696ef1435cf358943c671ac55944ccec26c (patch) | |
| tree | 1098fbb75838685a5f0d8b1b5471c510a8f8abe1 /src/main.c | |
| parent | 1786950759a0429bde29822c3c879fdbf305f24d (diff) | |
save metadata to extended file attributes
It is often convinient to track back the source of a once downloaded
file; this patch makes curl store the source URL and other metadata
alongside the retrieved file by using the extended attributes (if
supported by the file system and enabled by --xattr).
Diffstat (limited to 'src/main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/main.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c index 8a942de07..5394bac2a 100644 --- a/src/main.c +++ b/src/main.c @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ #endif #include "rawstr.h" +#include "xattr.h" + #define CURLseparator "--_curl_--" #ifdef NETWARE @@ -621,6 +623,7 @@ struct Configurable { int default_node_flags; /* default flags to seach for each 'node', which is basically each given URL to transfer */ struct OutStruct *outs; + bool xattr; /* store metadata in extended attributes */ }; #define WARN_PREFIX "Warning: " @@ -906,6 +909,7 @@ static void help(void) " --wdebug Turn on Watt-32 debugging", #endif " -w/--write-out <format> What to output after completion", + " --xattr Store metadata in extended file attributes", " -q If used as the first parameter disables .curlrc", NULL }; @@ -1953,6 +1957,7 @@ static ParameterError getparameter(char *flag, /* f or -long-flag */ {"y", "speed-time", TRUE}, {"z", "time-cond", TRUE}, {"#", "progress-bar",FALSE}, + {"~", "xattr",FALSE}, }; if(('-' != flag[0]) || @@ -2445,6 +2450,9 @@ static ParameterError getparameter(char *flag, /* f or -long-flag */ else config->progressmode = CURL_PROGRESS_STATS; break; + case '~': /* --xattr */ + config->xattr = toggle; + break; case '0': /* HTTP version 1.0 */ config->httpversion = CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0; @@ -5639,6 +5647,15 @@ operate(struct Configurable *config, int argc, argv_item_t argv[]) } } + if(config->xattr && outs.filename) { + char *url = NULL; + curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, &url); + int err = write_xattr( curl, outs.filename ); + if (err) { + warnf( config, "Error setting extended attributes: %s\n", strerror(errno) ); + } + } + #ifdef HAVE_UTIME /* Important that we set the time _after_ the file has been closed, as is done above here */ |