See bug https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9743 No way to set zero length EA's with CIFS vfs. I was doing some investigations around bug #9130, where Windows fails to copy a file when we return a zero-length EA associated with it. Looking carefully into this this is a deficiency in the CIFS UNIX protocols. On Linux it's possible to set a zero-length EA on a file/directory as a tag of some kind, with no associated data. On Windows this is impossible - trying to set a zero-length EA will just delete it, plus the EA names are case insensitive (and always returned uppercase). We need to add a UNIX_GET_EAS call that can return all POSIX EA's without mangling case, and can also return zero-length EA's, also we need a UNIX_SET_EAS call that can set a zero length EA, and also has an additional 'flags' field that can delete an EA if set. Please discuss, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
