Re: Reading/changing projid of a symlink

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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 05:26:46PM -0700, Ilya Pronin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to recursively check/change projid on a directory that
> contains symlinks among other files. The way I do it is like this
> (attributes reading part as an example, modulo error handling):
> 
> oflags = O_NOFOLLOW | O_RDONLY;
> if (S_ISDIR(stat->st_mode))
>         oflags |= O_DIRECTORY;
> if (S_ISLNK(stat->st_mode))
>         oflags |= O_PATH;
> fd = open(path, oflags, 0);
> xfsctl(NULL, fd, XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR, &attr);
> 
> The xfsctl() call fails with EBADF. Apparently this is because
> xfsctl() is implemented as ioctl(), at least on Linux, which doesn't
> work with file descriptors obtained with O_PATH. Is there any way to
> manipulate projid on symlinks?
> 

Not sure if somebody already replied you, I couldn't find anything in my mbox,
but you can't.

Out of curiosity, why would you do that though?


> Thanks!
> 
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