linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr name

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Message-ID: <20080229005113.GA24087@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:51:13 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dave Quigley <dpquigl@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, bfields@...ldses.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr
	name

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:50:06PM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> As I've told you several times before: we're _NOT_ putting private
> ioctl^Hxattrs onto the wire. If the protocol can't be described in an
> RFC, then it isn't going in no matter what expletive you choose to
> use...

It's as unstructured as the named attributes already in.  Or file data
for that matter.

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