From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@gmail.com>,
Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>,
Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Making an interface for alternative data streams
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:42:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160322214255.GA10921@jra3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160322200801.GF4083@fieldses.org>
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:08:01PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
> But you do see people using "named attributes"/"alternative data
> streams"?
>
> This comes up at the LSF/MM summit every now and then and Jeremy Allison
> inevitably says "hah, only malware writers use those", and that's the
> end of the discussion. Sounds like Richard Yao has heard otherwise, but
> it'd be nice to have actual examples of users.
The only use I know of other than malware writers is
the :Zone.Identifier stream used by Internet Explorer.
http://woshub.com/how-windows-determines-that-the-file-has-been-downloaded-from-the-internet/
Not sure if the new Microsoft browser still uses them
(I haven't used desktop Windows in over 10 years).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-21 18:11 Making an interface for alternative data streams Richard Yao
2016-03-21 18:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-21 18:51 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 19:17 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 20:19 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-21 20:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-21 22:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-03-21 22:48 ` Cedric Blancher
2016-03-22 0:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 1:02 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 2:21 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 16:15 ` Richard Sharpe
2016-03-22 20:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 20:13 ` Richard Sharpe
2016-03-22 20:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 21:42 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2016-03-23 4:13 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 4:19 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 14:45 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 17:01 ` Jeremy Allison
2016-03-23 17:01 ` Jeremy Allison
2016-03-23 17:16 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 15:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 2:01 ` Richard Yao
2016-03-22 21:29 ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 21:52 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-03-22 22:50 ` Dave Chinner
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