Re: [PATCH 1/6] xattr consolidation v2 - generic xattr API

[James Morris]

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There's an out of date comment in fs/devpts/xattr.c (which is no excuse 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
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James Morris
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