Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface

Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-12-10T16:19:44Z

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:00:06AM -0500, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
> Hello Stephen , Is this the only attribution ?
> Just love those 'we won't share security info with you unless you
> are member or pay.' . Sorry , JimL

There are other references in the paper: I've appended them below.
One, in particular, seems to talk about quite similar concepts:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec2000/acharya.html

Cheers,
Stephen

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