On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:44:39PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > And what about duplicate instances of a given attribute id? Use the > first? The last? Error? Depends on the id? I thought of a better idea, instead of explicitly checking for disallowed dups: We want to return -ENOTHANDLED for not handled attributes anyways, so let's just do that for dups - that'll catch erronious usage just fine and a generic mechanism's better than a one off hack any day. This does mean we can't punt on return values, which isn't a bad thing. Also, if we've got duplicate attributes userspace needs to be able to figure out which return value was for which attribute. Two possibilities: one, return values come out in the same order attributes went in. That'd work, but I dislike the subtlety and I expect it'd be a pain for userspace. Instead, let's just stick a u64 cookie in the attribute and include that in the return, just like we do everywhere else. -- 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
