Re: Possible issue with linux xattr support?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:58:45PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> * Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@freebsd.org> [20230830 13:48]:
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:01:13PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, install from GNU coreutils is now unable to install
> > > anything again. I tried both as 'nobody' and as 'root', it doesn't make
> > > a difference:
> > > [...]
> > > I assume the fsetxattr call needs some adjustment of error codes as well
> > > to make GNU tools play nice.
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't changed setxattr syscalls due to EPERM is a valid error from it,
> > however here's the essential difference between Linux and FreeBSD.
> > FreeBSD does not permits manipulatingg attributes in the
> > system namespace for unprivileged accounts.
> 
> Interesting! (and, a weird design ...)
> 
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~dchagin/xattr.patch
> 
> Yes, that's basically the same change I meanwhile did locally, except I
> restricted the adjustment to cases of writing the system namespace --
> not sure that's good for anything though.
> 
> In short: Works fine that way!
> 
Thanks, I see, I agree with your change, taken into account.