Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] initramfs: add support for xattrs in the initial ram disk

Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.initramfs,org.kernel.vger.linux-api,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-integrity,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-security-module
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> This proposal consists in marshaling pathnames and xattrs in a file called
> .xattr-list. They are unmarshaled by the CPIO parser after all files have
> been extracted.

Couldn't this parsing of the .xattr-list file and the setting of the xattrs
be done equivalently by the initramfs' /init? Why is kernel involvement
actually required here?

Thanks,
	Dominik
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.