From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Michael B Allen <mba2000@ioplex.com>
Cc: sfrench@samba.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, aia21@cantab.net,
hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:55:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D9DB5E.4040500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53299.199.43.32.68.1104796121.squirrel@li4-142.members.linode.com>
Michael B Allen wrote:
>>
>>Thus, I'd propose:
>>
>> system.dosattrib - DOS attributes (single byte)
>> system.dosshortname - DOS short name (e.g. for VFAT)
>
>
> Oh, from the man page I thought 'system' attributes were "extended
> attributes to which ordinary processes should not have access". Is that
> not true? If it is true, how would an ordinary user change these attrs?
>
Nah:
Extended system attributes
Extended system attributes are used by the kernel to store sys-
tem objects such as Access Control Lists and Capabilities. Read
and write access permissions to system attributes depend on the
policy implemented for each system attribute implemented by
filesystems in the kernel.
It's not *that* broken...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-03 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-03 22:24 FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:26 ` Michael B Allen
2005-01-03 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:48 ` Michael B Allen
2005-01-03 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-01-04 0:18 ` tridge
2005-01-04 0:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04 0:39 ` tridge
2005-01-04 0:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04 1:12 ` tridge
2005-01-04 1:31 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 1:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04 2:05 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 22:24 ` [Linux-NTFS-Dev] " Szakacsits Szabolcs
2005-01-04 1:21 ` tridge
2005-01-04 1:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 23:28 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 0:05 ` tridge
2005-01-04 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04 0:58 ` tridge
2005-01-04 1:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04 1:36 ` tridge
2005-01-04 1:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04 2:05 ` tridge
2005-01-04 2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-04 2:23 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-01-04 2:49 ` tridge
2005-01-04 3:39 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-01-04 3:56 ` tridge
2005-01-04 4:50 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-01-04 4:05 ` Michael B Allen
2005-01-04 10:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-04 11:08 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-04 22:18 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-04 23:04 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-01-05 0:48 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-01-05 1:12 ` Nicholas Miell
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