[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

Thu Oct 7 21:10:01 EDT 2021

On Friday, October 8, 2021 at 7:07:02 AM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
> On 2021-10-07, Dave Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm guessing Unix files don't have metadata and such.
>>
> No, Unix doesn't. At Unix filesystem level, files are just a stream of bytes. 

Some Linux filesystems have the concept of “extended attributes” <https://manpages.debian.org/buster/manpages/xattr.7.en.html>. Some are reserved for security purposes, others are user-defined.