Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:15:35 +0100 | | Subject | Re: Return value of generic xattr operations | | From | Olaf van der Spek <> |
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> 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.
> supported means that extended attributes are not enabled or not > implemented by the fs. The man pages are not much clear about this > point. What do you think?
Olaf
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