Re: extended attributes and lsextattr/extattr_list_file

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:48:33AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > > i tend to think it's better to just kill the freebsd flavor of syscalls.
 > 
 > I think the API is ill-designed too. Even the function names are at odds
 > with usual Unix practice.
 > 
 > What we can do is to depreciate the FreeBSD API, and change our code
 > in-tree to use the Linux API. I think moving things to userland will do
 > more harm than good.

My vote would be to just remove it entirely. It's not like the code
ever worked.

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David A. Holland
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