On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:29:57AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:33:01 -0700 > Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 04:28:36PM -0500, Steve French wrote: > > > Seems like a reasonable request. What version of kernel do you want > > > me to give you some test patches for? > > > > Well first let's work out the wire format, then we > > can look at implementations. > > > > I'm assuming you'll be re-using the existing > > EA marshalling/de-marshalling code, so let's > > decide exactly which Windows info-level we > > want to base it on. > > > > Jeremy. > > Yeah, sounds reasonable to me too. We currently only use: > > SMB_INFO_QUERY_ALL_EAS > SMB_SET_FILE_EA > > However, the current marshalling/unmarshalling code is a bit of a mess, > so if it makes sense to depart from how those work then we can do so. Yeah, but we already have working server-side marshalling/unmarshalling code, so I'd rather not invent a new mechanism, other than specify that the EA name be in utf8 rather than DOS charset. > Note that we ought to add a new unix capability bit for this too. Yep, and also raise the minor version number. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
