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Re: [Acl-devel] Moving attr(5) man page to man-pages
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Christoph Hellwig |
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Re: [Acl-devel] Moving attr(5) man page to man-pages |
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Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:19:43 -0700 |
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 02:16:15PM +0200, Andreas Gr??nbacher wrote:
> > Hmm... some light testing (using XFS) suggests that one can create
> > more than 64 kB of attribute names, but then listxattr() fails
> > with E2BIG. That seems like a sad corner case :-(.
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> That's what will happen, yes. I don't have a good idea how to fix this.
We could use the same iterator style for listxattr as we do for readdir.
For XFS that would be really easy as the code is already internally
structured like that.