| To: | Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: fsetxattr() fails on a writable descriptor? |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:58:05 -0400 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <200909100014.10833@xxxxxx> |
| References: | <1251987642.3855.36.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20090908184049.GA22050@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <4AA81CDB.8070509@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <200909100014.10833@xxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
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. |
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