Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:52:37 +0200 | From | Jacky Malcles <> | Subject | A question about extended attributes of filesystem objects (setfattr command) |
| |
I have a question regarding Attributes of symlinks vs. the files pointed to
If I try to attach name:value pair to object symlink file then I'll get: "Operation not permitted"
reading the man pages of setfattr (or attr) I thought that it operates on the attributes of the symbolic link itself.
show: ----- touch f ln -s f l setfattr -n user.filename -v ascii1 f l setfattr -h -n user.filename -v ascii2 f getfattr -d f l setfattr -h -n user.filename -v ascii3 l setfattr -h --no-dereference -n user.filename -v ascii4 l getfattr -d f l
so, my question is : what is expected ? I've libattr-devel-2.2.0-1 libattr-2.2.0-1 attr-2.2.0-1 and a 2.6.7 kernel
many thanks, regards,
-- Jacky Malcles B1-403 Email : Jacky.Malcles@bull.net Bull SA, 1 rue de Provence, B.P 208, 38432 Echirolles CEDEX, FRANCE Tel : 04.76.29.73.14 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |