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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:51:13 -0500
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:50:06PM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> As I've told you several times before: we're _NOT_ putting private
> ioctl^Hxattrs onto the wire. If the protocol can't be described in an
> RFC, then it isn't going in no matter what expletive you choose to
> use...

It's as unstructured as the named attributes already in.  Or file data
for that matter.