From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: agruen@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, dhowells@redhat.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V7 21/26] richacl: xattr mapping functions
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:20:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111019222021.GB1874@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318951981-5508-22-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:02:56PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> +#define RICHACL_XATTR "system.richacl"
> +
> +struct richace_xattr {
> + __le16 e_type;
> + __le16 e_flags;
> + __le32 e_mask;
> + __le32 e_id;
> + char e_who[0];
> +};
Does it really make sense to use a string here just to pick between the
three choices OWNER@, GROUP@, and EVERYONE@? Why not just another small
integer? Is the goal to expand this somehow eventually?
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-18 15:32 [PATCH -V7 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 01/26] vfs: Indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 02/26] vfs: Add hex format for MAY_* flag values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 03/26] vfs: Pass all mask flags down to iop->check_acl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 04/26] vfs: Add a comment to inode_permission() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 05/26] vfs: Add generic IS_ACL() test for acl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 06/26] vfs: Add IS_RICHACL() test for richacl support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 07/26] vfs: Optimize out IS_RICHACL() if CONFIG_FS_RICHACL is not defined Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 08/26] vfs: Add new file and directory create permission flags Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-19 16:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-20 5:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 09/26] vfs: Add delete child and delete self " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-19 22:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-20 7:35 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-20 8:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 10/26] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 11/26] vfs: Add permission flags for setting file attributes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 12/26] vfs: Make acl_permission_check() work for richacls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 13/26] richacl: In-memory representation and helper functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 14/26] richacl: Permission mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 15/26] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 16/26] richacl: Update the file masks in chmod() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 17/26] richacl: Permission check algorithm Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 18/26] richacl: Create-time inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 19/26] richacl: Check if an acl is equivalent to a file mode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 20/26] richacl: Automatic Inheritance Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 21/26] richacl: xattr mapping functions Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-19 22:20 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2011-10-20 8:30 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-20 9:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-20 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-20 10:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-20 23:46 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2011-10-21 0:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-21 9:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-21 10:52 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2011-10-21 13:12 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-21 23:58 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2011-10-20 11:02 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-20 17:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-20 19:49 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-11-19 9:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-11-19 9:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-11-21 13:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 22/26] vfs: Cache richacl in struct inode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 23/26] vfs: Add richacl permission check Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:32 ` [PATCH -V7 24/26] ext4: Use IS_POSIXACL() to check for POSIX ACL support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:33 ` [PATCH -V7 25/26] ext4: Implement rich acl for ext4 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 18:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-10-19 5:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 15:33 ` [PATCH -V7 26/26] ext4: Add Ext4 compat richacl feature flag Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-18 16:17 ` [PATCH -V7 00/26] New ACL format for better NFSv4 acl interoperability Shea Levy
2011-10-19 5:54 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-10-19 22:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
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