Re: Possible issue with linux xattr support?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:33:23PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> * Felix Palmen <zirias@freebsd.org> [20230830 12:01]:
> > 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.
> 
> On a second thought, shouldn't it be two separate patches in the end?
> 
> * Some adjustment of the error codes seems to be needed to correctly
>   mimick Linux, so GNU tools et al don't misinterpret some error as
>   being "fatal"
> 
> * Optionally allowing access to the system namespace from within a jail
>   is also needed for some use cases (as shown by HBSD having a patch),
>   but is in fact unrelated to the issue with Linux *xattr calls
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong here ;)
>

sure, xattr.patch includes 5 commits