[Labeled-nfs] Current development prototype patches.

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:19:04PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> Sure.  The NFS client has no EA code currently.  So I'd need to add 
> stubs just to get to the point where I can fake out part of the EA 
> namespace to translate calls to setattr/getattr over the wire.

The client's currently doing exactly that for ACLs.  It doesn't seem so
bad.

> This is somewhat annoying after all the talk about EAs being these
> pure abstract blobs that the kernel doesn't interpret.

The kernel has always intepreted the ACL extended attributes
(system.posix_acl_access and system.posix_acl_default), at least.

--b.