On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:40:41PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:19:17PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > > Maybe I should clarify that the idea is to allow read/write/list of > > extended attributes via read/write/readdir so that those that want > > extended attributes that are alternative data streams can have them. I > > do not want to see extended attributes and alternative data streams be > > different things. > > I think there are differences between the two that make this awkward. > Does anyone actually use alternative data stream for anything that makes > the effort worthwhile? Windows malware authors *love* to use alternate data streams as a place to hide their malware where many security scanners weren't looking, and certainly most users won't find. Does that count? :-) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
