Re: An answer to metadata, complete.

[Andreas Kostyrka <andreas rainbow studorg tuwien ac at>]

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Leareth wrote:

> 1: eg, you have metadata atached to a file, go into bash and "mv" the file,
> some where else. Databases alone can not handle this, but takeing from
> libvfs's use of LD_PRELOAD to over ride basic libc functions, with extened
Basically a good idea, the problem here is, that the libc API doesn't know
about meta data:
-) 5==open(source, O_RDONLY);
-) 6==open(dest, O_WRONLY);
-) read(5, data, BUFSIZ);
-) write(6, data, BUFSIZ);
...
The problem here is, how to detect quickly that some copying is done.
The ``easier'' solution IMHO would be to patch GNU file utils to deal with
meta data :)

Andreas
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