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Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>> 
>>   Ah, looks like Cygwin only supports xattr on Samba filesystems.
>
>  Or that could just be a logic bug.
>
>> int __stdcall
>> write_ea (HANDLE hdl, path_conv &pc, const char *name, const char *value,
>> 	  size_t size, int flags)
>> {
>>   OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES attr;
>>   NTSTATUS status;
>>   IO_STATUS_BLOCK io;
>>   int ret = -1;
>>   HANDLE h = hdl;
>>   PFILE_FULL_EA_INFORMATION fea;
>>   ULONG flen;
>>   size_t nlen;
>> 
>>   myfault efault;
>>   if (efault.faulted (EFAULT))
>>     goto out;
>> 
>>   pc.get_object_attr (attr, sec_none_nih);
>> 
>>   debug_printf ("write_ea (%S, %s, %p, %lu, %d)",
>> 		attr.ObjectName, name, value, size, flags);
>> 
>>   /* Samba hides the user namespace from Windows clients.  If we get a
>>      user namespace item, we remove the leading namespace from the name.
>>      This keeps tools like attr/getfattr/setfattr happy.  Otherwise
>>      setting the EA fails as if we don't have the permissions. */
>>   if (pc.fs_is_samba () && ascii_strncasematch (name, "user.", 5))
>>     name += 5;
>>   else
>>     {
>>       set_errno (EOPNOTSUPP);
>>       goto out;
>>     }
>
>  I wonder if that unconditional else clause should in fact be "else if
>(pc.fs_is_samba())"?

You're right.  I'll check in something that adheres to other the,
similar, uses in that file (looks like one of the changes is even mine).

But why are we bothering with NTEA again?  I thought that was deprecated.

cgf


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