[PATCH] mtd: mtd-utils: Support Capabilities (extended attributes)

[Bruno Vernay]

[PATCH]  mtd: mtd-utils: Support Capabilities (extended attributes)

Write the files capabilities into the target image.
Capabilities are a kind of security extended attributes (similar to SELinux)
The extended attributes are writen in an additional inode.
Note that we don't use the "capability" functions, but the raw
Extended Attributes http://www.linuxhowtos.org/manpages/2/getxattr.htm
Inspired from: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/321572/
About Capabilities: http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html

[From: Bruno VERNAY <brunovern.a at gmail.com>]
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