Messages in this thread | | | From | (Scott Lurndal) | Subject | Re: caps in elf headers: use the sticky bit! | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:40:51 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > Well, I didn't really want to mention it, but we do have an > extension to NFS3 which propogates arbitrary extended attributes > which we use for ACLs, Capabilities, and MAC labels in Trusted Irix. > So we don't have to patch *Irix* for a heterogenous environment. > >
and an additional benefit of the arbitrary extended attributes is that they could be used, for example, to track the RPM that provided a file, could contain the date, time and media S/N that the file was last backed up to, etc. et. al.
scott
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