> 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
BeOS uses almost an almost identical set of functions with command line utilities
supporting explicit modifications of these per-file properties.
It's great stuff since can tag a file by some kind of property, such as a miniturized
icons, etc... and have be be explicitly be associate with the files instead of having
that stuff maintained in a database of some sort creating maintenance issues.
bill
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