Rich Brown wrote: > I just got off the phone with Nico. Turns out we're in violent agreement. > > I thought he was talking about exposing the system extended attribute files > (SUNWattr_rw, SUNWattr_ro). But Nico was talking about the individual > attributes (CREATETIME, SYSTEM, HIDDEN, etc., etc.).
There's a good chance I've not been paying attention to all of the details here, in which case I apologize. (And the original 1-pager appears to be non-public, which does not help). But, what happens if someone tries to create an extended attribute with one of these reserved names (such as HIDDEN) via the existing interfaces in fsattr(5)? Or tries to read the value of SYSTEM via fsattr(5) after NFSv4 sets it via SUNWattr_*? What happens if someone upgrades an existing system with attributes with these reserved names -- does this mean you'll possibly have duplicates with conflicting values? Granted, it's probably unlikely that anyone is actually doing this, so maybe the question is not a high priority. But if not, this is a similar question to the one Nico just asked, I think. Hugh.
