Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix securityextensions

[Ragnar Kj�rstad]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:10:23AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Also if EAs were to be implemented as extended files/directories, do you 
> then suggest to use file/directory operations to work with them? (i.e. 
> open, read, write, close). - If yes, I would think that this is inferior to 
> the current API proposal where you have direct EA operations (ATR_*). - As 
> other people have said EAs are more like environment variables than 
> anything else and the API should be consistent with that. - Also how would 
> you handle operations on several/all EAs at once? - It would not seem 
> possible to do any more if file ops are used? - Or have I misunderstood 
> your proposal?

Hans proposed an interface to handle operations on multiple files in
general. 

The syntax may not be perfect, but the general idea is interesting. I
think it was Stephen that mentioned in Miami that such an interface was
needed to make a filesystem transactions available to userspace?


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Ragnar Kj�rstad
Big Storage
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