jyoung/system/loggerd/xattr_cache.py

import os
import errno

_cached_attributes: dict[tuple, bytes | None] = {}

def getxattr(path: str, attr_name: str) -> bytes | None:
  key = (path, attr_name)
  if key not in _cached_attributes:
    try:
      response = os.getxattr(path, attr_name)
    except OSError as e:
      # ENODATA means attribute hasn't been set
      if e.errno == errno.ENODATA:
        response = None
      else:
        raise
    _cached_attributes[key] = response
  return _cached_attributes[key]

def setxattr(path: str, attr_name: str, attr_value: bytes) -> None:
  _cached_attributes.pop((path, attr_name), None)
  return os.setxattr(path, attr_name, attr_value)