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authorAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>2020-06-29 19:18:54 -0700
committerAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>2020-06-29 19:18:54 -0700
commit84956fbc567aadedc8bde03005cdf05652a4053a (patch)
tree3481dfddf8d231585051a05c7e020a5bec39136d /libcap/cap_file.c
parentf1c3ac995d02d4f17b9d15656ab6d58f4c87435a (diff)
downloadlibcap2-84956fbc567aadedc8bde03005cdf05652a4053a.tar.gz
Tidy up the comment related to the XATTR backup definitions.
We generally try not to use C++ style line comments. Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'libcap/cap_file.c')
-rw-r--r--libcap/cap_file.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libcap/cap_file.c b/libcap/cap_file.c
index 3852b1e..3739883 100644
--- a/libcap/cap_file.c
+++ b/libcap/cap_file.c
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@ extern int fsetxattr(int, const char *, const void *, size_t, int);
extern int removexattr(const char *, const char *);
extern int fremovexattr(int, const char *);
-// This public API went private in the 2.6.36 kernel and above - hope it never changes
+/*
+ * This public API was moved to include/uapi/linux/xattr.h . For just
+ * these definitions, it isn't really worth managing this in our build
+ * system with yet another copy of a header file. We just, provide
+ * fallback definitions here.
+ */
#ifndef XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX
#define XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX "capability"
#endif