Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:58:35 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: Pass setxattr(2) flags properly |
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote: > > It's not really used very much. The only use of XATTR_CREATE is to > prevent creating the attrs used for ACLs from the normal xattrs > interface instead of going through the ACL code, and XATTR_REPLACE > is only used to return -ENOATTR when it's set but the attribute > actually is empty. > > The first one could probably be used (by root) to create invalid > attrs that confuse the ACL code, and the second may confuse application > using it, although I doubt there are many.
Ok.
So nobody much i going to care. But I presume that you ack the patch itself as correct?
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