-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:45, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Clifton Royston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I need to add a feature to an application where it can keep tabs on > > whether one specific action has ever been taken on any given file, one > > of possibly hundreds of thousands of a dynamically changing file set. > > man extattr
I think he wanted to use sticky/sgid/suid because they get removed when the file is changed so the application can go back and see if they've been changed. That doesn't happen to attributes. Also, I don't think attributes work over NFS(?) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA19/b5ZPcIHs/zowRAu6YAKCLvYy9Ozy0flatbqdd11xA7YLDOwCgqtcD /JdlWxeXWPxnd3qaTU6pb9A= =sH9/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
