Re: Possible issue with linux xattr support?

* Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@freebsd.org> [20230830 13:48]:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:01:13PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> > Unfortunately, install from GNU coreutils is now unable to install
> > anything again. I tried both as 'nobody' and as 'root', it doesn't make
> > a difference:
> > [...]
> > I assume the fsetxattr call needs some adjustment of error codes as well
> > to make GNU tools play nice.
> > 
> 
> I don't changed setxattr syscalls due to EPERM is a valid error from it,
> however here's the essential difference between Linux and FreeBSD.
> FreeBSD does not permits manipulatingg attributes in the
> system namespace for unprivileged accounts.

Interesting! (and, a weird design ...)

> https://people.freebsd.org/~dchagin/xattr.patch

Yes, that's basically the same change I meanwhile did locally, except I
restricted the adjustment to cases of writing the system namespace --
not sure that's good for anything though.

In short: Works fine that way!

Cheers, Felix

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