From: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
To: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@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: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:15:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik71N=OJOD5MvvBitUQM4C42-Q8HSrBc8NiBuSc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D1748D4.5050700@gmail.com>
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.
> supported means that extended attributes are not enabled or not
> implemented by the fs. The man pages are not much clear about this
> point. What do you think?
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-26 21:15 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 [this message]
2010-12-27 8:38 ` Marco Stornelli
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