On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 12:08:41PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: >> Here is another update to the richacl patch queue. This posting contains >> the patches ready to be merged; the patches later in the queue still need >> some more review. > > It still has the same crappy fs interfaces with lots of boilerplate > code Could you please be more specific so that I can trace this complaint to some actual code? > and still abuses xattrs instead of a proper syscall interface. > That's far from being ready to merge. The xattr syscall interface is what's used for very similar kinds of things today; using it for richacls as well sure does not count as abuse. Things could be improved in the xattr interface and in its implementation, but we need more substantial reasons than that for reimplementing the wheel once again. [The recently discussed xattr fixes (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/101502) and two small POSIX ACL fixes (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/101499) are currently stuck waiting for Al, by the way.] Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
