From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 10:58:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200511085822.xbotifcwjdza4hhy@function> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zd2j1i1.fsf@gnu.org>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen, le lun. 11 mai 2020 10:53:58 +0200, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault writes:
>
> > Samuel Thibault, le lun. 11 mai 2020 10:42:08 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> > diskfs_S_file_set_translator (struct protid *cred,
> >> > [...]
> >> > if (passivelen && passive[passivelen - 1])
> >> > return EINVAL;
> >> >
> >> > hmm; so even when there are no arguments, VALUE must end with 0?!
> >>
> >> That
> >
> > That's a bit sad, but I'm not so surprised either. I don't remember if
> > that was discussed at the time.
>
> At first glance it felt like a bug/non-finished thing; setttrans does
> not require the user to resort to \0-hackery.
It does not because settrans is supposed to *be* the user-visible
interface. setfattr is not supposed to be.
Samuel
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-10 19:48 Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-10 20:05 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-11 8:33 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-11 8:42 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-11 8:46 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-11 8:53 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-11 8:58 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
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