Seems like a reasonable request. What version of kernel do you want me to give you some test patches for? On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
