Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:47:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:47:06 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-043-086.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.43.86]:1799 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:46:54 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Nathan Scott , Linus Torvalds , Alexander Viro , Andi Kleen , Andreas Gruenbacher Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:45:50 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20011205143209.C44610@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <20011207101517.B46546@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011207101517.B46546@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/