Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:12:32 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux |
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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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