Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268646AbUIGVMz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:12:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268658AbUIGVKS (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:10:18 -0400 Received: from slartibartfast.pa.net ([66.59.111.182]:40360 "EHLO slartibartfast.pa.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268657AbUIGVJR (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:09:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:05:01 -0400 (EDT) From: William Stearns X-X-Sender: wstearns@sparrow Reply-To: William Stearns To: Hans Reiser cc: Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , ML-reiserfs , William Stearns Subject: Re: silent semantic changes in reiser4 (brief attempt to document the idea of what reiser4 wants to do with metafiles and why In-Reply-To: <413E170F.9000204@namesys.com> Message-ID: References: <41323AD8.7040103@namesys.com> <20040831131201.GA1609@elf.ucw.cz> <413E170F.9000204@namesys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1602 Lines: 38 Good day, all, On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Hans Reiser wrote: > >What about choosing just "..." instead of "metas"? "metas" is string > >that needs translation etc, while "..." is nicely neutral. > > > >cat /sound_of_silence.mp3/.../author > > > >does not look bad, either... > > > "..." is pretty good, but I think it has been used by others, but I > really forget who. I could live with "...", but I think "metas" and Some trojans and rootkits have used it to store files; /usr/lib/... , /usr/doc/... , /usr/sbin/... , /usr/local/bin/... , /dev/... , and /usr/include/... are used by bobkit. This might trigger false positives for rootkit detection tools like chkrootkit and rootkit-hunter. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What is the most effective Windows NT remote management tool? A car." -- Network Intrusion Detection, An Analyst's Handbook 2nd Edition, 2000 Stephen Northcutt et al, page 147 (Courtesy of Rodrigo Goya ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/