On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Konrad Podloucky wrote:

> Apparently SELinux uses extended attributes and rdiff-backup tries to
> clear all attributes from temp files it creates during transfer (at least
> that's what I concluded). However the security.selinux attribute can not
> be removed (at least not by unprivileged users) and an IOError (Permission 
> denied) is thrown which is not caught anywhere.

i've committed your patch to rdiff-backup cvs upstream... no idea when a 
new release will occur, but if you have a chance to test the cvs i'd 
really appreciate it (there are other EA and ACL changes).  the info is 
here <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rdiff-backup/>.

thanks
-dean


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