Il 26/12/2010 22:15, Olaf van der Spek ha scritto: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Marco Stornelli > <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is it right that generic_setxattr & co. return -EOPNOTSUPP if there is a >> namespace error? I mean, if the user try to set <my own namespace>.foo >> attribute, the return value should be -EINVAL, isn't it? Operation not > > Why? > There are multiple errors and only one can be returned. > Ok, but at least it should be return the most important. Man page said: "If extended attributes are not supported by the file system, or are disabled, errno is set to ENOTSUP.", but in this case this kind of error is not really matching with this sentence, because the extended attribute are supported by fs and they are enabled. Marco -- 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
