On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:40:38 -0500, Rich Brown wrote:
>- Does the kernel need to protect the format and/or value of the
>   attribute for the value to be useful to consumers other than the one
>   that set the value?  If so, then it may be a system attribute.
>
>   For example, CREATETIME must be in a time format (timestruc_t).

It would be nice if this were true, but timestruc_t uses signed values
(giving a time range from well before the big bang to well after the
projected end of the universe) while this project uses unsigned values
(giving a time range from midnight Jan 1, 1970, UCT to much further
after the projected end of the universe).

 - Don

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