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bug #33417: use reasonable exit statuses

Submitter:	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>
Submitted:	Fri 27 May 2011 08:13:49 PM UTC


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Sun 14 Jan 2024 01:30:18 AM UTC, comment #3: feel free to put together a patch & send it to the mailing list for review/discussion	Mike Frysinger <vapier>
Sat 07 Oct 2023 02:11:37 PM UTC, comment #2: What's IMO still open is: There should be a separate exit status at least for the case when an XATTR is just not set, but apart from that, no errors (like non-existent file, etc.) occurred.	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>
Fri 23 Jun 2023 11:26:36 PM UTC, comment #1: For the records, I think at least the part "Trying to read an XATTR that doesn't exist" has been fixed meanwhile by commit 93c92ed1d826c6759bb83d2168ee818a05280f35. Haven't checked the other points, though. I guess actually that at least all the read cases are fixed.	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>
Fri 27 May 2011 08:13:49 PM UTC, original submission: Hi. Currently it seems to me that setfattr/getfattr don't use exit statuses != 0 at all. Could you please add this (very important) functionality? Exit codes (!= 0) should at least be provided for the following cases: - Trying to read/write XATTRs when not supported by the underlying filesystem. - Trying to read/write XATTRs when not allowed (e.g. not the "user" namespace, or on files that are not regular or not directories. - Trying to read an XATTR that doesn't exist (currently it's not easily possible to determine whether an XATTR is set or not. - etc. Cheers, Chris.	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>

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