Extended Attributes Question

[Matthew Whitehead <mrw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear SGI,
 I'm at sysadmin at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Our sister site 
is NASA Ames (Columbia).  I have an enhancement idea I wanted to bounce 
off you.
For XFS filesystem extended attributes, I'd like a way to automatically 
set these attributes. Counting on users to do it themselves just doesn't 
work.
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_* ?
Also, system wide defaults set in an /etc file would also be nice. 

Storing the name of the binary running that creates the file would be good.

- Matthew