From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Making an interface for alternative data streams
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:36:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160321223627.GA12999@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160321204041.GA807@fieldses.org>
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:40:41PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:19:17PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
> > Maybe I should clarify that the idea is to allow read/write/list of
> > extended attributes via read/write/readdir so that those that want
> > extended attributes that are alternative data streams can have them. I
> > do not want to see extended attributes and alternative data streams be
> > different things.
>
> I think there are differences between the two that make this awkward.
> Does anyone actually use alternative data stream for anything that makes
> the effort worthwhile?
Windows malware authors *love* to use alternate data streams as a
place to hide their malware where many security scanners weren't
looking, and certainly most users won't find.
Does that count? :-)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-21 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ 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 [this message]
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
2016-03-23 4:13 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 4:19 ` Steve French
2016-03-23 14:45 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5muya2+hWQup99QcxKV9XE4T_pWW565+fqWeu1tAnXSxoQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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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