Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:30:24PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> > Why do you treat attributes differently from files?  Why is your interface 
>specific to attributes
> > rather than files generally with attributes being files with a particular name?
> 
> Atomic updates.

And for one other reason --- treating them as files wouldn't allow us
the ability to do bulk set/get on a number of attributes.  That
ability gives us a huge reduction in syscalls as well as the atomic
guarantees.

--Stephen
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