Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:49:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux |
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Kristian Koehntopp wrote:
> you imagine what things like these are doing to your backup > concepts in a multi-user environment? Somebody touched a file > with an editor, did not change anything but the cursor position > in a ressource fork and the whole file goes to amanda the next > night... > > Or what if I delete a user from my system. Imagine the system > administrator scanning the whole filesystem for ressource forks > where this particular user has stored now unneeded configuration > data and stripping all these forks from the respective files - > making changes to these files and forcing everything that user > *ever* touched on backup the next night (which is exactly the > opposite of the right thing to do, because I don't want to
NO NO NO.
The forks would have the same permissions as the file.
Random J luser on your system couldn't add fork data to /bin/bash.
Forks should be stored as directories, and initally created with the same permissions as the files.
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