linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: Move attribute flags into non __KERNEL_

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Date:	Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:33:30 -0600
From:	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Move attribute flags into non __KERNEL__ space

If these aren't normally exposed to user space, then how are they
typically set?  That interface may make more sense at the protocol
level (and perhaps more so from the server side implementation).

        -eric


On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 07:14:26PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>
>> > It's a 9P bug; fix it there.  Turning random internal constants into a part
>> > of ABI is not going to work.
>>
>> I guess we would need to define them at the protocol level then.
>> Something like f88657ce3f9713a0c62101dffb0e972a979e77b9.
>
> The question is which ones make sense at the protocol level...
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