From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Carrying Attributes too Far
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:40:03 +0400
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lrc1@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote:

>Quoting Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>:
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>>lrc1@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote:
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>>>Quoting "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>:
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>>>>lrc1@st-andrews.ac.uk wrote on Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:28:30 +0100:  
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>>>I agree that attribute files should be files like any other. So attribute
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>>files 
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>>>should certainly have the same linking and permissions rights as any other 
>>>file.
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>>Why?  Not at all, I would say. 
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>Short answer: because otherwise you have ""attributes" that cannot interact with
>files in all the same ways that files can interact with files" (
>http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html ).
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no, you just have different permission processing on different files.

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>>>>- Alex
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>>-- 
>>Hans
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>Leo.
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Hans