Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2000 22:42:51 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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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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