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So you're telling me my size 0 file may unknowingly be a large key/value db? Neat. The system call to read these attributes is getxattr(), for anyone curious.
by sureglymop 10mo ago
So you're telling me my size 0 file may unknowingly be a large key/value db? Neat.
The system call to read these attributes is getxattr(), for anyone curious.
- alance 10mo agoHa, it suddenly sounds like trouble. Eg: one could piggy-back an entirely new file onto an existing file (it might have to be text encoded?). It looks like the kernel might impose a limit of 64KiB on a file's metadata, but that's still quite a lot of room for data smuggling...