From: "François Revol" <revol@free.fr>
To: "Arnaud Patard (Rtp)" <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Return EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOSYS for *xattr* syscalls
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:41 +0200 CEST [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5157338984-BeMail@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vrmflva.fsf@lechat.rtp-net.org>
>
> In current code, we're sending ENOSYS to target when a syscall for
> the
> xattrs is done. This makes applications like ls complain loudly about
> that and breaks scripts parsing the output. Moreover, iirc,
> implemented
> features of filesystems are are sending EOPNOTSUPP (I've not checked
> so
> I may be a little bit wrong on that...).
> So, I'm proposing to return -EOPNOTSUPP and make ls happy.
>
> As a side not, I'd like to know if there's a reason for not having
> implemented the *xattr* syscalls support. If someone has a clue,
> please
> share it :).
Possibly to avoid endianness issues with binary data ?
François.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-21 8:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Return EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOSYS for *xattr* syscalls Arnaud Patard
2009-04-21 10:23 ` François Revol [this message]
2009-04-21 18:08 ` Riku Voipio
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