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getfattr and symlinks

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Subject: getfattr and symlinks
From: Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:50:45 +0200
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Hello,
I have one question, what is right behavior of getfattr in a recursive mode? Should getfattr follow symlinks in this mode (without [PLh] parameters)?

Example:

$HOME/file.txt
$HOME/symlink -> /
...

getfattr -Rd $HOME

So what is the right result? Follow "$HOME/symlink" or not?

Thank you

Zdenek Prikryl


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