Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 11/24/2015 12:15 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
How about relevant xattrs? SELinux context, ACL, that sort of thing.
The fact that these are optional should be taken care of by (4).
Those are not simple, fixed size stat data and would make the system
call a giant mess.

I didn't say it would be easy. I do think that adding a system call
that only deals with simple, fixed size data is going to fall short
of solving "the problem".

Actually, a Smack label is fixed size (256 bytes). I suspect there
is a maximum for SELinux contexts as well. ACLs I'll grant you are
infinite.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Reiser Filesystem Development]     [Ceph FS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite National Park]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux