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From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: 531950-quiet@bugs.debian.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>,
	Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
Subject: Re: Bug#531950: attr: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:35:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090614163517.GA19259@volta.aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090609121042.GA28666@infradead.org>

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:10:42AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:35:58PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> > The problem is that there is no ENODATA errno value defined
> > on GNU/kFreeBSD. The errno values are determined by kernel,
> > they are the same as on plain FreeBSD, used libc
> > implementation does not change it.
> >
> > Another possibility is to use patch bellow.
> > Does it looks acceptable for you ?
> 
> This one looks better to me, except that I would really make this
> an explicit #ifdef __linux__.  The lack of a proper ENOATTR is
> a Linux specific quirck and not related to the presence of
> non-standard ENODATA.  Maybe also add a little comment why
> we're doing this so people don't get confused by it.
> 
> Btw, how does libattr actually work for you on FreeBSD?  Last time
> I checked FreeBSD had slightly different xattr system calls that (just
> like IRIX) used an integer namespace value instead of the string prefix
> in Linux.
> 

When not on Linux, libattr uses the GNU libc functions instead of the
system calls. The GNU libc then translates that into FreeBSD syscalls
including the integer namespace value.

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Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-06-09 10:31 ` Bug#531950: attr: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD Nathan Scott
2009-06-09 11:35   ` Petr Salinger
2009-06-09 12:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-14 16:35       ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2009-06-14 20:33         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-14 20:56           ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-06-15  9:42             ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-15 10:26               ` Petr Salinger
2009-06-15 10:05                 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-06-19 15:37                 ` Andreas Gruenbacher

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