Re: Named attributes

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From: David Robinson (David.Robinson@Sun.COM)
Date: 02/19/02-06:26:30 PM Z 

Message-ID: <3C72ED36.7050906@Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:26:30 -0600
From: David Robinson <David.Robinson@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Named attributes

Spencer Shepler wrote:
 > As other have pointed out to me, this does seem opposite to the
 > regular attributes of a file when it is truncated.  The mode isn't
 > changed with O_TRUNC (unless setuid/setgid is set) or group isn't
 > reset as a result of O_TRUNC.  Should named attributes be removed as a
 > result of O_TRUNC.  Is this behavior exist in operating environments
 > today and if so, which ones?

If the semantics of O_TRUNC on a file with arbitrary named attributes
is to leave them as is, does this mean that in order to recreate a
file the client must explicitly list all available attributes and
delete/reset them?  What if it doesn't grok a named attribute?
Should it delete it or leave it alone?

	-David

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