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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, sihara@ddn.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2p: fix getflags for link file
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:10:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205161010.2q2owkepbk6zg2hp@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1512395795-10022-1-git-send-email-wshilong1991@gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:56:35PM +0900, Wang Shilong wrote:
> From: Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> $ touch a
> $ lsattr -dp a
>  2000 ----------------P a
> $ ln -s a b
> $ lsattr -dp b
> lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on b
> 
> Link files should be supported, fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>

You can't actually set or get the extended attributes for a symlink;
the *kernel* doesn't support what you seem to be hoping to achieve.
This patch result in fgetflags() following the symlink and opening
whatever file it points at.

	      	      	  	  	   	- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-04 13:56 [PATCH] e2p: fix getflags for link file Wang Shilong
2017-12-05 16:10 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2017-12-06  0:41   ` Wang Shilong
     [not found]     ` <CAP9B-Qnu=SrKx60q7B1Wyzd_a_Po-vX3Ah_avTnFudZO2PsAyw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-12-06  2:44       ` Theodore Ts'o

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