#13 Cannot listxattr for files in subdirectories

[Lorenzo Marcantonio]

It seems that star tries to read incorrectly the extended attributes for file in subdirectories... for example doing

star -c -f /tmp/x.tar.gz -H exustar -acl -xattr-linux .

Gives lots of error for files like

star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for 'Archive.pod'.

A strace shows the following:

newfstatat(7, "Archive.pod", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=7377, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
llistxattr("Archive.pod", 0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for 'Archive.pod'.\n", 69) = 69
getxattr("perl/Amanda/Archive.pod", "system.posix_acl_access", 0x7fffa0a32920, 132) = -1 ENODATA (No data available)
stat("perl/Amanda/Archive.pod", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=7377, ...}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "perl/Amanda/Archive.pod", O_RDONLY) = 8
read(8, "/*\n * Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Zmanda, Inc. All Rights Reserved.\n * Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Carbonit"..., 3510784) = 7377
read(8, "", 3503104) = 0
close(8) = 0

I think that the listxattr (maybe the newfstatat too?) should be done on the full relative path, not only on the file name, like getxattr does, for example

[Jörg Schilling]

Could you check whether this works if you use "-find ." instead of "."?schily

There have been some code changes recently for performance reasons....

[Jörg Schilling]

The fix takes a bit longer to fix as there are sevel small problems. Please use -find until the fix is ready.

[Jörg Schilling]

If you like, you may try out this patch. It is not fully complete since there is a need
to add support foe extra long path names (> 1024) but for most cases OK.

[Jörg Schilling]

Fixed in schily-2019-07-15