Re: TAKE - XFS/Linux Extended Attributes.

["Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:12:18AM -0500, Ted Kline wrote:
> 
> Implement the interfaces & supporting code to support Irix-style
> Extended Attributes, specifically:
> 
>       attr_get()      attr_getf()
>       attr_set()      attr_setf()
>       attr_list()     attr_listf()
>       attr_remove()   attr_removef()
> 
> Also implement the "xfs_attr" utility command.
> Update xfs_repair & xfs_db.
> 
> See near the top of cmd/xfs/attr/xfs_attr.c for a temporary
> example of how to "define" the syscalls without having an
> updated asm/unistd.h installed.

I think it would be a good idea if you reserved syscalls slot(s) from
Linus for that. Otherwise  there will be a big mess with binary
compatibility sooner or later.

-Andi