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From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
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Subject: Re: Re: unix file system
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 11:38:45 EDT
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> It looks like people have been hitting the nail on the head w.r.t. where to
> put file attributes.  File attribute belong in the file.

I once did a hack which put the file attributes on a file of the same name in
/usr/attr.

> What format shall these attributes have?  I would suggest
> a binary magic number followed by the list-like attributes.

I would suggest an environment like structure, since there is already a lot
of code to deal with this. That is "NAME=value\n...NAME=value\n\n". It should
also have some sort of size restriction (<1K?)