Re: [PATCH v18 19/22] richacl: Add richacl xattr handler

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J. Bruce Fields <hidden>
Date
2016-03-15 21:05:28
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Reply to
Christoph Hellwig, 2016-03-15
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:10:14AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 09:19:05AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
quoted
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:17:35AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
quoted
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 09:17:24AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
quoted
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?
That people get confused between the attr used by the xattr syscall
interface and the attr used to store things on disk or the protocol.
This has happened every time we have non-native support, e.g. XFS, NFS,
CIFS, ntfs, etc.  And it's only going to become worse.
How has that confusion caused problems in practice?

--b.

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