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Wrapping xattr as a racket module

2020-01-29

I recently came across a question: how do you read extended file attributes in Racket. Not being actually that familiar with extended file attributes, I searched online. Nothing seems to currently exist (other than in the FUSE module, but that’s specific to FUSE), but there is a system level exectuable that one could wrap to do this. I haven’t done much1 with Racket’s system or system* function before, so let’s give it a whirl.

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