hi,
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:20:43PM +1000, monkeyiq wrote:
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> Hi,
> I am creating a VFS solution that relies on EA to a heavy degree.
> I am wondering if there is a EA naming convention forum out there?
Not that I know of. For the extended attributes that XFS uses
itself (ie. in the "root" namespace, not the "user" namespace),
the naming convention is to use "SGI_" as the name prefix.
This is used for things like ACLs, MAC labels, DMAPI attributes,
and several others.
> For example, the GPG guys might decide what the attr name of a sig
> block should be? I will probably make up names myself using something
> like the emacs-naming-scheme that I have been using for read only
> generated EA so far in ferris. Just thought I'd ask incase there was
> already an effort in place for shared naming of handy attributes.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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