Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Holger Berger wrote: > > > For which specific application was the XATTR API designed for? JDS? > > > > If I remember my history correctly a large part of the driver for this > > was a previous project at Sun that was attempting to do CIFS support - > > more than that I can't say partly due to poor memory on my part and > > partly due to what I do remember possibly being encumbered and thus not > > appropriate for this alias. > > The Sun implemention appeared 2 months after there was a XATTR related > discussion on the POSIX mailing list. > > The Sun XATTR implementation solves all problems shown by the Microsoft > members > of the OpenGroup board without suffering from the problems that did show up > with the proposal than came from Microsoft.
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