Re: [Acl-devel] [ANNOUNCE] attr 2.4.47

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hi.

On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 09:43 -0500, Brandon Philips wrote: 
>       getfattr: return non-zero exit code on failure
That doesn't really fix what I've had reported some time ago
(https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?33417).

While now you use an exit status, it doesn't seem to be a reasonable
one.

1) It seems that the manpages still don't describe which exit status is
used for what...

2) It seems that 1 is always used in case of an "error", e.g. when
xattrs are not supported by the underlying fs:
# setfattr -n bar -v bar foo 
setfattr: foo: Operation not supported
# echo $?
1

3) That an attribute is missing, is however not real error, is it?

Cheers,
Chris.

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