From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n9DNuajT161476 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:56:36 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6879D178223E for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id aPHGL9VgWFGd6zOa for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:58:05 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: fsetxattr() fails on a writable descriptor? Message-ID: <20091013235805.GA18467@infradead.org> References: <1251987642.3855.36.camel@dhcp-lab-219.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090908184049.GA22050@infradead.org> <4AA81CDB.8070509@draigBrady.com> <200909100014.10833@zmi.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909100014.10833@zmi.at> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Monnerie Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:14:10AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Mittwoch 09 September 2009 P?draig Brady wrote: > > The specific issue we have is that `cp --preserve=xattr` gets an > > error when copying xattrs from a read only file. Since this has been > > an xattr issue since the start, we'll have to work around it. > > In that context I would call it a bug - shouldn't it be fixed? It seems pretty late for change behaviour that has been around since 2002. But if this was a new interface I would agree with you that the behaviour is illogical. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs