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Date:      Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:24:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master
Message-ID:  <200212292224.gBTMO9XJ009790@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200212292217.gBTMHLpV009761@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <200212292025.gBTKPs9Z025260@repoman.freebsd.org> <200212292217.gBTMHLpV009761@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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<<On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:17:21 -0500 (EST), I wrote:

> There should probably be a file mode bit that is returned by stat() to
> indicate that additional attributes exist that are not in struct stat.

Of course, what I'm leading up to is an extended version of the stat()
interface that returns ACLs, MAC labels, capabilities, and any other
``extended attributes'' (in the general sense) that pertain to the
file, so that applications like mtree(8), cp(1), and even ls(1) can
get all the information they need in one fell swoop (and a single
system call) rather than having to explicitly check for every possible
sort of attribute.

-GAWollman


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