Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

[Hans Reiser]

"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Treating them as files does not prevent you from implementing a bulk set/get on files 
as my proposal
does.  Did you see my proposal, or did it get lost in the email....

> 
> --Stephen
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