Needs a Cc to linux-api and linux-man. On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 11:59:08AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This allows xattr ops on symlink/special files referenced by an O_PATH > descriptor without having to play games with /proc/self/fd/NN (which > doesn't work for symlinks anyway). Do we even intent to support xattrs on say links? They never wire up ->listxattr and would only get them through s_xattr. I'm defintively worried that this could break things without a very careful audit.
