On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:08:01PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > But you do see people using "named attributes"/"alternative data > streams"? > > This comes up at the LSF/MM summit every now and then and Jeremy Allison > inevitably says "hah, only malware writers use those", and that's the > end of the discussion. Sounds like Richard Yao has heard otherwise, but > it'd be nice to have actual examples of users. The only use I know of other than malware writers is the :Zone.Identifier stream used by Internet Explorer. http://woshub.com/how-windows-determines-that-the-file-has-been-downloaded-from-the-internet/ Not sure if the new Microsoft browser still uses them (I haven't used desktop Windows in over 10 years). -- 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
