From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: fsetxattr() fails on a writable descriptor?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:17:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910140317.09839@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091013235805.GA18467@infradead.org>
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
I didn't restrict to fix xattr behaviour, but "cp" should be fixed.
After all, the bug exists since 2002, so "cp" should also work around it
to get it's own parameters right.
mfg zmi
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2009-09-08 11:29 ` fsetxattr() fails on a writable descriptor? Pádraig Brady
2009-09-08 18:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-09 21:23 ` Pádraig Brady
2009-09-09 22:14 ` Michael Monnerie
2009-10-13 23:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-14 1:17 ` Michael Monnerie [this message]
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