From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: chattr: operation not supported ( on symlinks )
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:16:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531A2918.9020108@ubuntu.com> (raw)
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It seems that symlinks return -ENOTSUP for lsattr, causing chattr -R
to spew errors. Why don't symlinks support attributes, and if not,
shouldn't chattr know this and suppress operating on symlinks instead
of spewing errors?
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next reply other threads:[~2014-03-07 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-07 20:16 Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-03-08 15:29 ` chattr: operation not supported ( on symlinks ) Theodore Ts'o
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