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SubjectRe: Implementing Meta File information in Linux
Hi,

In article <19980831215451.479.qmail@hwi.poi.org>, poipoi@famipow.com
writes:

> do i miss something ? why the solution of using elf chunk has been given
> up ? only user space, dont need change in cp,tar, etc..., and perhaps
> even not in exe loader.
> in my opinion, it is a good solution.

No, it doesn't solve the problem in question, namely how to tag bits
of data onto a file transparently, without those tags being visible to
a program which simply open()s the file. The whole point is to add
the tags without changing the normal visible data of the file.

--Stephen

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