[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-07, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's true and I do use them. However, at filesystem level, the
file data itself is just a stream of bytes without any embedded metadata
(unlike on VMS).

Simon.

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