Beagle tries to write extended attributes to files that aren't writable
and complains loudly when this failed.

I have confirmed that the automatic fallback to SQLite is working,
however it would be nice to handle this situation a bit better.

Index: beagled/FileAttributesStore_ExtendedAttribute.cs
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/beagle/beagled/FileAttributesStore_ExtendedAttribute.cs,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -B -r1.3 FileAttributesStore_ExtendedAttribute.cs
--- beagled/FileAttributesStore_ExtendedAttribute.cs	20 Feb 2005 09:47:11 -0000	1.3
+++ beagled/FileAttributesStore_ExtendedAttribute.cs	22 Feb 2005 22:16:53 -0000
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 //
 
 using System;
+using System.IO;
 
 using Beagle.Util;
 
@@ -114,6 +115,10 @@
 							       String.Format ("{0:000} {1}", attr.FilterVersion, attr.FilterName));
 				
 				return true;
+			} catch (IOException e) {
+				// We don't mind about IOExceptions, because if we can't write
+				// the EA then we fall back to sqlite.
+				return false;
 			} catch (Exception e) {
 				Logger.Log.Debug ("Caught exception writing EAs to {0}", attr.Path);
 				Logger.Log.Debug (e);
Index: Util/ExtendedAttribute.cs
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/beagle/Util/ExtendedAttribute.cs,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -B -r1.9 ExtendedAttribute.cs
--- Util/ExtendedAttribute.cs	3 Dec 2004 03:21:20 -0000	1.9
+++ Util/ExtendedAttribute.cs	22 Feb 2005 22:17:20 -0000
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
 		public static void Set (string path, string name, string value)
 		{
-			if (! FileSystem.Exists (path))
+			if ((! FileSystem.Exists (path)) || Syscall.access (path, AccessMode.W_OK) != 0)
 				throw new IOException (path);
 
 			name = AddPrefix (name);
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
 
 		public static void Remove (string path, string name)
 		{
-			if (! FileSystem.Exists (path))
+			if ((! FileSystem.Exists (path)) || Syscall.access (path, AccessMode.W_OK) != 0)
 				throw new IOException (path);
 			
 			name = AddPrefix (name);