Re: XATTR structure for BIOS filesystem #2

[roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de]

TeSche writes:
> The completely other idea (as discussed some days ago) could change the data
> itself by gaining access to its bios_file over (struct bios_file *)f->fc.index,
> only that for now it doesn't know an XATTR field exists. To be very clear:
> This mustn't be extra implemented, this is already there, so I may very well
> consider my own security thoughts being totally wasted and unfullfillable :-(

I would prefer such a solution since it allows setting the file-type (for instance
to S_IFSOCK in MiNT-Net) and the preferred blockize.

Cheers -- Kay.