Re: Bug#531950: attr: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

Aurelien Jarno
2009-06-14T20:56:10Z

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:33:09PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 06:35:17PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > When not on Linux, libattr uses the GNU libc functions instead of the
> > system calls. The GNU libc then translates that into FreeBSD syscalls
> > including the integer namespace value.
>
> Maybe you'd be better off not doing a double translation by using
> the raw syscalls from libattr..
>

Would such a patch be accepted more easily than the ENODATA patch?

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