Re: TAKE - XFS/Linux Extended Attributes.

["Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:19:25PM -0500, The Unknown User-ID wrote:
> 
> I agree - except there is no 'approved' interface for extended attributes
> yet. This is as much a way for us to exercise the code in the kernel and a
> proof of concept as anything else. If the final version of an extended
> attribute interface is different then we will change to match it. 

The problem is not really the interface, just the syscall slot number.
I doubt it will be a problem to get a sysxfs() reserved, you could
hook the interface onto that and still switch over to the official interface
later.

Just privately reserving syscall numbers causes problems, because they
could be reused by someone else and break compatibility, causing more
pain than needed.

BTW, it is nice that you start to implement code for that.

-Andi