Specifications (the beginning)

From: David Wagner (dawat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 18:11:42 PDT

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    Philippe Biondi  wrote:
    >Do everybody agree that we need AC metadata, in other words, data that is
    >neither stored on the filesystem nor in the file, nor in the kernel ?
    
    What does this mean?  Can you give an example?
    (Are you talking about configuration and administration,
    or something else?)
    
    What's "AC data"?  Do you just mean "state" (whose interpretation
    is up to the module)?  I'm sorry if I'm not up on all the acronyms.
    
    >Do everybody agree that a per-process AC data storing is the right way ?
    >(uids and capabilities are also stored in task_struct)
    
    It's useful, but it's not the only issue.  Yes, some modules will
    want to be able to manage per-process state.  I suspect that some
    would also find it useful to be able to manage per-inode state.
    And probably there are some cases I'm not thinking of?
    



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