Re: [NEWS] Extended attributes interface changes

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:31:05AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:57:39PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > 
> > We will be moving to the acl.bestbits.at implementation of
> > ACLs which uses the extended attributes interfaces directly
> > for ACLs, rather than separate syscalls as we have currently
> > in the XFS tree.
> > 
> > So, there will be no second change for ACL userspace, it will
> > all be done in one big step.
> 
> ah i see, so there will be no acl syscalls in the kernel, all of that
> will be handled entirly in the userspace libacl, which uses the xattr
> API just added yes?

yup.

> 
> does that mean libacl will need to know about the on disk format for
> ACL extended attributes for each filesystem it supports? 
> 

No, we'll convert to/from a common (VFS) format into the XFS-specific
format before writing / after reading the ACL.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan