Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:59:31 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Subject: Re: Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files? Message-ID: <200406221659.31501.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <xzpisdkkqru.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20040617205549.GA19254@lava.net> <xzpisdkkqru.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:45, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> writes: > > I need to add a feature to an application where it can keep tabs on > > whether one specific action has ever been taken on any given file, one > > of possibly hundreds of thousands of a dynamically changing file set. > > man extattr I think he wanted to use sticky/sgid/suid because they get removed when the= =20 file is changed so the application can go back and see if they've been=20 changed. That doesn't happen to attributes. Also, I don't think attributes work over NFS(?) =2D --=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA19/b5ZPcIHs/zowRAu6YAKCLvYy9Ozy0flatbqdd11xA7YLDOwCgqtcD /JdlWxeXWPxnd3qaTU6pb9A=3D =3DsH9/ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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