Re: Bug#531950: attr: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:56:28PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Would such a patch be accepted more easily than the ENODATA patch?

I don't think it's an except but in addition.  Wherever we do a strerror
in the attr code we will have to special case ENODATA on Linux and only
there.  Independent of that I think we would better of using the raw
syscalls in platforms already using binary namespaces rather than double
translation.  Note that this is only applicable for the IRIX-heritage
attr_* routines exports by libattr, not the *xattr routines it also
exports.