On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:30:56PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Hence, for many of these filesystems that support extended attributes.
> Using the "fd = sub_open", followed by read/write/lseek calls simply
> doesn't map well to what they need at all. So instead, SGI Irix's
> extend attribute interface looks like this:
>
> int attr_{get,set}(const char *path, const char *attrname,
> char *attrvalue, int *valuelength, int flags);
The XFS linux kernel from oss.sgi.com actually already uses that interface
on Linux (using system call numbers that have now been taken over by
getdents64 et.al., oh well..)
-Andi
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