[Acl-Devel] Unnamed extended attribute

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 10:43, Tejas Sumant wrote:
> HI All,
> 
> Is there anything like unnamed extended attribute in Linux?

No.

> I run setfacl command on a file.
> Initially there was no ACL on this file and i_file_acl was zero.
> Now i_file_acl is not zero.
> The EA block has extended attribute entry but name of attribute is NULL.
> Is it possible to have name of EA NULL?

Have a look at fs/ext3/xattr.h and fs/ext3/xattr.c for the on-disk format...

Andreas