Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface

Daniel Phillips
2001-12-07T01:47:16Z

On December 7, 2001 12:15 am, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > > (unless you go for a binary namespace representation, and that's a
> > > real can of worms).
> >
> > I'm suggesting we take a look at that.
>
> Andreas and I did have such an implementation, but we ditched it.
> The CVS revision history of cmd/attr2/{set,get}fattr/*.c in the XFS
> tree show the progression of user<->kernel interfaces which I tried
> while Andreas and I were nutting out a clean solution that we both
> could use.
>
> Thar be dragons thar. Big hairy ones.

Could you describe them, please?

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Daniel