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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] extended attributes
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 02:19:56PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> I'm not sure this would work for the extattr/lextattr variants where
> we don't have an fd to hold the state.  Should the list operation

Right. I forgot that.

Then I guess it is better to use EA_LIST_SIZE / EA_GET_LIST (EAGAIN on race)

Whole point is to just avoid to have an stateless cursor. 

-Andi
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