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Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:08:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs: we don't support removing system.nfs4_acl
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 07:31:38PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> OK. So you're not really saying that the SETATTR has a zero length
> body, but that the ACL attribute in this case has a zero length body,
> whereas in the 'empty acl' case, it is supposed to have a body
> containing a zero-length nfsace4<> array. Fair enough.

Yep!  I'll see if I can think of a helpful concise comment, and resend.

--b.