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Extended attributes are currently only available on Darwin 8.0+ (Mac OS X 10.4)
and Linux 2.6+. Experimental support is included for Solaris and FreeBSD.
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+Note: On Linux, custom xattr keys need to be prefixed with the `user`
+namespace, ie: `user.your_attr`.