Re: um ... what's with the "." after the directory perms?

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> yes, i'm sure i'm about to embarrass myself here but i just checked
> some directory perms created while root and they display as
> 
> drwxr-xr-x.
>           ^ ????
> 
>   what's that period?  i've never seen that before.  or have i just
> not been paying attention?
> 

I think it is an extended attribute.

try running getfattr on the file.

-sv