* Dmitry Chagin <dcha...@freebsd.org> [20230830 13:48]: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:01:13PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote: > > Unfortunately, install from GNU coreutils is now unable to install > > anything again. I tried both as 'nobody' and as 'root', it doesn't make > > a difference: > > [...] > > I assume the fsetxattr call needs some adjustment of error codes as well > > to make GNU tools play nice. > > > > I don't changed setxattr syscalls due to EPERM is a valid error from it, > however here's the essential difference between Linux and FreeBSD. > FreeBSD does not permits manipulatingg attributes in the > system namespace for unprivileged accounts.
Interesting! (and, a weird design ...) > https://people.freebsd.org/~dchagin/xattr.patch Yes, that's basically the same change I meanwhile did locally, except I restricted the adjustment to cases of writing the system namespace -- not sure that's good for anything though. In short: Works fine that way! Cheers, Felix -- Felix Palmen <zir...@freebsd.org> {private} fe...@palmen-it.de -- ports committer -- {web} http://palmen-it.de {pgp public key} http://palmen-it.de/pub.txt {pgp fingerprint} 6936 13D5 5BBF 4837 B212 3ACC 54AD E006 9879 F231
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