Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:46:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] xattr consolidation v2 - generic xattr API |
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Documentation/filesystems/Locking seems to be accurate.
There's an out of date comment in fs/devpts/xattr.c (which is no excuse for screwing it up though).
> The old handler API was fine at the FS level where locking was guaranteed > anyways. At the VFS level we should do better. Passing in the buffer and the > buffer size at the same time gets us rid of the problem without requiring any > locking.
Ok, I'll incorporate this and resubmit the patches soon.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
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