Samba does not return error when deleting non-existent xattr

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Thu May 9 12:47:57 MDT 2013


strangely enough Windows server does not seem to return an error on
this (deleting a non-existent attribute) so Samba is probably ok here.

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> In working on the code to fix the "set zero length xattr deletes the
> xattr" problem - I noticed that Samba does not return an error trying
> to delete an extended attribute that does not exist (locally ext4 does
> return an error when deleting an xattr that does not exist) which made
> it a little harder to notice the kernel client problem at first.
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve



-- 
Thanks,

Steve


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