Re[2]: extended attributes security problem

[Keith Matthews <keith_m@sweeney.demon.co.uk>]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:26:02 -0600 (CST) Eric Sandeen <Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>> wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> > I made a tiny xfs filesystem to test this, then made a 0-byte file and
> > added 64K attributes until I ran out of space:

> And then I read Ethan's mail from earlier today... whoops.  :)

Sorry if this is a red herring, as it's an area I have not managed to
study properly.

A thought - what happens to the space taken up by EAs against special
device files on shutdown/reboot if devfs is in use ?



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