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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:19:05 -0500
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 19/22] richacl: Add richacl xattr handler
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:17:35AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 09:17:24AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Add richacl xattr handler implementing the xattr operations based on the
> > get_richacl and set_richacl inode operations.
> 
> Given all the issues with Posix ACLs and selinux attributes these really
> should be proper syscalls instead of abusing the xattr interface.

What are those problems exactly?

--b.

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