Re: Unnamed extended attribute

Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Wed, 30 May 2007 17:50:29 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.acl.devel
Organization SuSE Labs, Novell
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 10:43, Tejas Sumant wrote:
> HI All,
> 
> Is there anything like unnamed extended attribute in Linux?

No.

> I run setfacl command on a file.
> Initially there was no ACL on this file and i_file_acl was zero.
> Now i_file_acl is not zero.
> The EA block has extended attribute entry but name of attribute is NULL.
> Is it possible to have name of EA NULL?

Have a look at fs/ext3/xattr.h and fs/ext3/xattr.c for the on-disk format...

Andreas
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