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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: XATTR structure for BIOS filesystem #2
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 14:08:19 MET
- In-Reply-To: <9311221224.AA27227@dares.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>; from "roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de" at Nov 22, 93 01:24:06 pm
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- roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de writes:
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- > I would prefer such a solution since it allows setting the file-type (for
- > instance to S_IFSOCK in MiNT-Net) and the preferred blockize.
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- The remaining parts of my security feelings tell me that this should
- perhaps better be done in an additional Dcntl() call. I think changing
- the file type from within the device driver isn't very clean.
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- Nevertheless, Dcntl()s should really be limited to superuser proggys.
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- TeSche
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- PS: If the above written looks weird, than that's because it probably IS.
- WhoDunnIt: Torsten Scherer (Schiller, TeSche...)
- Technical Faculty, University of Bielefeld, Germany (52'5"N 8'35"E)
- EMail: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de / tesche@dave.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de
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