From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269594AbUHZVjO (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:39:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269707AbUHZVdx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:33:53 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:50615 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269690AbUHZV3U (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:29:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:29:07 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Rik van Riel , Diego Calleja , jamie@shareable.org, christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826142907.B1973@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <45010000.1093553046@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@osdl.org on Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:54:46PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote: > The _big_ difference is that when you can make the compound object _look_ > like a directory, that means that you can now manage the attributes with > standard tools. They are still attributes, though. For things that actually use such attributes to determine file access, do the attributes get attributes? thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net