[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

[Casey Schaufler]

--- Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 19:51 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> > > I agree. EAs over NFS are not very hard. Have you seen the SGI published
> > > xattr extension? It's not large or particularly complex, and it has 
> > > about 10 years exposure in the Unix environment.
> > 
> > It's extremly nice.  And SGI even released the xdr en/decoding files
> > under GPL a while ago.  A lot nicer than either the SUN NFSv3 ACL
> > extensions or the whole subfile bullshit added to NFSv4.
> 
> Ugh. Yet another RPC sideband protocol?

Your point being?


Casey Schaufler
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