Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:01:34 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] VFS interface for extended attributes |
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On Nov 15, 2001 16:08 +1100, Nathan Scott wrote: > + if (ops) { > + if (flags & EA_CREATE) { > + if (ops->create) > + error = ops->create(i, name, value, size); > + } > + else if (flags & EA_REPLACE) { > + if (ops->replace) > + error = ops->replace(i, name, value, size); > + } > + else if (flags & EA_REMOVE) { > + if (ops->remove) > + error = ops->remove(i, name); > + } > + else if (ops->set) > + error = ops->set(i, name, value, size); > + }
> + int (*create) (struct inode *, char *, void *, size_t); > + int (*replace) (struct inode *, char *, void *, size_t); > + int (*set) (struct inode *, char *, void *, size_t);
What is the distinction between "set" and "replace" or "set" and "create"? Is it analogous to open(,O_CREAT|O_EXCL)? If so, why are there not just flags to distinguish the two, but also separate VFS operations?
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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