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Re: Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator |
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Mon, 11 May 2020 10:53:58 +0200 |
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Samuel Thibault writes:
> Samuel Thibault, le lun. 11 mai 2020 10:42:08 +0200, a ecrit:
>> > diskfs_S_file_set_translator (struct protid *cred,
>> > [...]
>> > if (passivelen && passive[passivelen - 1])
>> > return EINVAL;
>> >
>> > hmm; so even when there are no arguments, VALUE must end with 0?!
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>> That
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> That's a bit sad, but I'm not so surprised either. I don't remember if
> that was discussed at the time.
At first glance it felt like a bug/non-finished thing; setttrans does
not require the user to resort to \0-hackery.
Of course, setfattr is a generic tool; so nothing can be done there to
make this frienlier; I'm not sure if something could be done on the hurd
side. Could be nice, not sure.
janneke
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