On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > It's not really used very much. The only use of XATTR_CREATE is to > prevent creating the attrs used for ACLs from the normal xattrs > interface instead of going through the ACL code, and XATTR_REPLACE > is only used to return -ENOATTR when it's set but the attribute > actually is empty. > > The first one could probably be used (by root) to create invalid > attrs that confuse the ACL code, and the second may confuse application > using it, although I doubt there are many. Ok. So nobody much i going to care. But I presume that you ack the patch itself as correct? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html