libsmbclient - setxattr sometimes corrupts conext

Derrell Lipman derrell.lipman at unwireduniverse.com
Thu Jan 10 01:31:01 GMT 2008


On Jan 9, 2008 2:23 PM, Henrik <henke at mac.se> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> We are using samba 3.0.28 and we noticed some weird bugs with the
> smbc_setxattr function.
>
> Worth of mentioning is that on our contexts we use:
> smbc_option_set( pSmbContext, "full_time_names", 1 );
>
> It looks like setting time values somehow corrupt the context, so that
> we can't set ACL using names. Somehow it works if we set ACL using SIDs.
> This has been tried on several paths, many times, many files/
> directories after each other, same result every time.
>

Hi Henrik,

Please post all of this as a new bug, and I'll look at it.  Sounds like an
oversight in implementation and "should" (always the operative word) be easy
to fix.

Cheers,

Derrell


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