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Re: extattr namespaces



Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> I'm not sure you can even read them: on freebsd "user.foo.bar" will be stored
> as name "foo.bar" in (integer) namespace user. When we'll read it we'll
> find foo in (integer) namespace user but we don't know which namespace
> it really belongs to (as we store the namespace with the name);
> and for us this will be name "bar" in namespace foo.

I guess the trick is that anything outside (system, trusted, security)
will be stored in (integer) user namespace. Therefore you an read it,
the problem is that you do not know if you should present user.foo.bar
or foo.bar to the user.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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