[PATCH] Maintain DOS attributes of externally copied file

ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1) matt_zinkevicius at hp.com
Tue Aug 7 21:35:26 GMT 2001


> > Can you explain this a bit more?  It sounds very intruiging.  I'm
> > thinking perhaps you have a userspace daemon that looks for 
> changes to
> > files and the applies ACLs to them.
> 
> Basically (We dont look for changes, we are notified of 
> them). We have a kernel module that provides realtime 
> file-change notification, a daemon that that catches the 
> notifications and distributes actions to be performed.

Of course, you wouldn't even need a daemon if your file system supports
extended metadata operations.

--Matt




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