| To: | "evilninja@xxxxxxx" <evilninja@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Extended Attributes Question |
| From: | Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:25:10 +1000 |
| Cc: | Matthew Whitehead <mrw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, "'Kent Kamischke'" <kent@xxxxxxx>, Pamela Kennedy <pkennedy@xxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <434EA9DE.5070204@gmx.net> |
| References: | <434EA1D1.7010805@nccs.gsfc.nasa.gov> <434EA9DE.5070204@gmx.net> |
| Sender: | linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 20:39 +0200, evilninja@xxxxxxx wrote: > Matthew Whitehead wrote: > > > > Could you modify the code of sys_creat/sys_open in fs/open.c to check > > for the existence of environment variables and set the attribute/value > > pairs automatically? Say, an environment variable with the prefix > > FILE_XATTR_* ? > > Um, can't this be done entirely in userspace? The kernel should not be > influnced by environment variables, IMHO. But perhaps I did not > understand what you really meant.... Yes - an LD_PRELOAD could do this. -- Stewart Smith (stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) http://www.flamingspork.com/
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