Re: [Openxdsm-devel] Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

[Ragnar Kj�rstad]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:24:19AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> I don't think so. My suggestion would be this: All user EAs are prefixed
> with "user." when passed to the kernel. The prefix is not actually stored
> on the filesystem. Likewise, all root EAs are prefixed with "root.".

If they are to be "stripped" of by the kernel, would it not be better to
keep it in a seperate field?

It is always a prefix and a name, right? A hirarchie is out of the
question? (A hirarchie can of course not be represented in two fields)


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Ragnar Kj�rstad
Big Storage
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