Extended attribute interfaces

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Casey Schaufler wrote:

> Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 
> > You mean user attributes for device special files.
> 
> Sigh. No, I mean the Irix equivalent of devfs.

I see. Well, the argument still applies. Having write access to a device
special file should not also give you write access to extended user
attributes of that file I think. One also never gets write access to the
special file itself but only to the device it refers to. Correct?

Andreas

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