Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface

From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	"Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>,
	Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <ag@bestbits.at>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:15:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011210161533.G1919@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011210155628.E1919@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.40.0112101059020.7362-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0112101059020.7362-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>; from babydr@baby-dragons.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:00:06AM -0500

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:00:06AM -0500, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 
> 	Hello Stephen ,  Is this the only attribution ?
> 	Just love those 'we won't share security info with you unless you
> 	are member or pay.' .  Sorry ,  JimL

There are other references in the paper: I've appended them below.
One, in particular, seems to talk about quite similar concepts:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec2000/acharya.html

Cheers,
 Stephen

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