Re: set-file-extended-attributes and backups

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Romain Francoise <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:59:35 -0500
> 
> > How about changing its return value instead?  Say, return t if ACLs
> > set, nil otherwise.  It always bothers me to have an API that silently
> > fails without any tangible indication.
> 
> I think it should fail (i.e. signal an error) for any case where the
> file's ACLs were not set as requested.

ENOTSUP usually means the filesystem doesn't support ACLs.  Having an
error that every single use of it will want to ignore doesn't seem to
be useful.