Re: [PATCH v6 05/16] sockfs: getxattr: Fail with -EOPNOTSUPP for invalid attribute names

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 05:48:34PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> The standard return value for unsupported attribute names is
> -EOPNOTSUPP, as opposed to undefined but supported attributes
> (-ENODATA).
> 
> Also, fail for attribute names like "system.sockprotonameXXX" and
> simplify the code a bit.

The only sensible thing to do with this xattr abuse is to remove it
entirely..
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