Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
24 Aug 1998 17:30:51 +0200


In article <35E178D3.CBFC4174@flashnet.it>,
"Sebastiano Tine'" <mb027878@flashnet.it> writes:
> For my final work in the course of computer scienze at the faculty of enginering
> of "Universita La sapienza" in Rome (ITALY), i studing the of implementing in
> the linux kernel a feature similiar tu Apple MacOS resource fork or IBM OS/2
> Extended Attributes.

> I have named it "Meta File Information". They consists in data associated with
> the single file that user process can set and read.

> Does anyone ever thinked on it or implemented in some way ? I need tips and
> suggestions on possible implementations.

It is already implemented. It is called a "directory".

-Andi

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