Eric Sandeen wrote: > Mingming Cao wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 17:06 -0700, jvrao wrote: >>> lsetxattr()/lgetxsttr() functions are not working on a ext4 symlink. >>> But works fine on a regular file. >>> >>> I tried the following program.. Not sure if I am missing something. >>> Any help will be appreciated. >>> >>> >> >> I tried your test program on ext2/3/btrfs, it seems all broken. >> Not sure how this not being visible? Thought xattrs are heavily used by >> default on some distros. > > xfs as well FWIW. > > however, I'm not sure setting user xattrs directly on symlinks is > a common operation... Looking at the attr(5) says user xattrs are not allowed on symlinks and special files. I guess it is working as designed. :) - JV > > -Eric > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
