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    SubjectRe: NTFS-like streams?
    On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:30:56PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
    > Hence, for many of these filesystems that support extended attributes.
    > Using the "fd = sub_open", followed by read/write/lseek calls simply
    > doesn't map well to what they need at all. So instead, SGI Irix's
    > extend attribute interface looks like this:
    >
    > int attr_{get,set}(const char *path, const char *attrname,
    > char *attrvalue, int *valuelength, int flags);

    The XFS linux kernel from oss.sgi.com actually already uses that interface
    on Linux (using system call numbers that have now been taken over by
    getdents64 et.al., oh well..)

    -Andi


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