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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:21:07 -0800 (PST)

    > From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>

    > Some text editors save-as-tmp-and-rename.  This breaks hard links, and I 
    > wonder whether it would also kill extended attributes.  I suspect it 
    > would require more attribute-awareness than many apps have.

Which points in the general direction of why extended attributes are
simply an ill-conceived idea.

-t





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