Re: Possible issue with linux xattr support?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:49:59 UTC
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 08:43:02PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> Hello Dmitry,
>
> * Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@freebsd.org> [20230904 21:29]:
> > Thanks for the report,
> > please, try this: https://people.freebsd.org/~dchagin/lxattr.patch
> > Don't be surprised, there 2 fixes
>
> Thanks a lot for the quick patch! I have to admit I don't fully
> understand it immediately, but I assume it's an attempt to only list
> attributes not in system.* when that namespace is restricted?
no,
+ if (error == EPERM)
+ break;
mean that listxattr will fail if user is unauthorized to access system
namespace, ie, listxattr will return ENOTSUP
>
> Well, it *does* solve the issue with 'cp -p' from GNU coreutils!
>
> I guess I'll now do a full rebuild of my linuxulator userspace branch on
> a kernel with that patch, just to be sure it won't break anything else,
> this will take a few hours, I will report back. So far looking really
> good :)
>
nice, thanks
> Cheers, Felix
>
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