From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Return value of generic xattr operations
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:38:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D18506B.8070400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik71N=OJOD5MvvBitUQM4C42-Q8HSrBc8NiBuSc@mail.gmail.com>
Il 26/12/2010 22:15, Olaf van der Spek ha scritto:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Marco Stornelli
> <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it right that generic_setxattr & co. return -EOPNOTSUPP if there is a
>> namespace error? I mean, if the user try to set <my own namespace>.foo
>> attribute, the return value should be -EINVAL, isn't it? Operation not
>
> Why?
> There are multiple errors and only one can be returned.
>
Ok, but at least it should be return the most important. Man page said:
"If extended attributes are not supported by the file system, or are
disabled, errno is set to ENOTSUP.", but in this case this kind of error
is not really matching with this sentence, because the extended
attribute are supported by fs and they are enabled.
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-27 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-26 13:53 Return value of generic xattr operations Marco Stornelli
2010-12-26 21:15 ` Olaf van der Spek
2010-12-27 8:38 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
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