Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:05:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | William Stearns <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why |
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Good day, all,
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Hans Reiser wrote:
> >What about choosing just "..." instead of "metas"? "metas" is string > >that needs translation etc, while "..." is nicely neutral. > > > >cat /sound_of_silence.mp3/.../author > > > >does not look bad, either... > > > "..." is pretty good, but I think it has been used by others, but I > really forget who. I could live with "...", but I think "metas" and
Some trojans and rootkits have used it to store files; /usr/lib/... , /usr/doc/... , /usr/sbin/... , /usr/local/bin/... , /dev/... , and /usr/include/... are used by bobkit. This might trigger false positives for rootkit detection tools like chkrootkit and rootkit-hunter. Cheers, - Bill
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