Re: [PATCH] extended attribute support

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chrisat_private

* Stephen Smalley (sdsat_private) wrote:
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> However, I would suggest that you only pass arguments with input data;
> passing kernel buffers reserved for output data doesn't seem useful,
> especially since they haven't been filled yet. This means that you would
> drop the 'kvalue' and 'size' from the getxattr hook and the 'klist' and
> 'size' from the listxattr hook.

good idea, that complies with the way the i wrote the docs too ;-).  attached
is the patch updated with these suggestions.

thanks,
-chris