On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:06:13AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > It is easy to do the conversion so that our Linux-like listexattr() returns > NUL-separated strings, while our FreeBSD-like extattr_list_file() returns > one-byte length prefixed strings. The question is what should our vnode > interface (VOP_LISTEXTATTR) require? Linux-like format is also used
Are attributes allowed to contain NUL bytes? I can imagine using this for arbitrary binary data (e.g. just to pick an arbitrary example: raw md5 sums), so it seems like it would be nice to support that. If we want to support that, NUL separated strings certainly won't work. eric
