Re: [fuse-devel] symlink xattrs

[David B. <and...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Michael j Theall <mt...@us...> wrote:

> I'm trying to test xattrs on symlinks in my filesystem, but only
> llistxattr actually invokes listxattr in fuse_lowlevel_ops. Any attempt to
> use lgetxattr, lsetxattr, or lremovexattr comes back immediately with
> EPERM without any apparent attempt to consult my filesystem. They do go
> through with regular files and directories, but not with symlinks,
> regardless of whether the link is broken or not. The permissions for the
> symlink are 777, and I'm using FUSE 2.8.3 lowlevel API on a 2.6.32 kernel.
> Any ideas?
>

Try turning on fuselib debugging (pass -d as an arg to fuse_main) to see if
the requests make it out of the kernel. xattrs on symlinks should
definitely work.


>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Theall
>
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