From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: bug-hurd@gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 10:53:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zd2j1i1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200511084647.xusdpgzhurjojoei@function> (Samuel Thibault's message of "Mon, 11 May 2020 10:46:47 +0200")
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?!
>>
>> That
>
> 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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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-10 19:48 Feeble attempt at using xattr gnu.translator Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-10 20:05 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-11 8:33 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-05-11 8:42 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-11 8:46 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-11 8:53 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2020-05-11 8:58 ` Samuel Thibault
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