Re: Is this mail list dead?

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Crispin Cowan wrote:

> Until you have a file system that supports extended attributes
> so as to store capability bits

I wonder if there's any development going on on this front ...

AFAIK extended attributes _are_ planned for Linux 2.5, so it
would be nice if there was code to store capabilities in them.

(then again, even if the extended attributes won't work out, we
should still use the capabilities, if even through a wrapper
script or a layering filesystem)

regards,

Rik
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