On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:29:49PM +0100, P??draig Brady wrote: > fsetxattr() is failing for me when the permissions are readonly > but the descriptor is writable as demonstrated by the program below. > I've tried this on ext3 and ext4 with libattr-2.4.43-3.fc11.i586 > and linux-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 That's not XFS specifci behaviour. For all xattr operations, fd-based or not we always do the full permission checks, and have done so since day one. Check the routined xattr_permission in fs/xattr.c of the kernel tree. It seems a bit unusual, but I'm not sure changing it now is a good idea - the xattr support has been around for a long time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
