bug#74692: ls -la unexpected output on NFS shares, possibly due to listxattr in gnulib

2025-01-09 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2025-01-09 05:29, Pádraig Brady wrote: over NFS with unreadable files you can GET the security.selinux xattr, but you can't LIST any xattrs: Ouch again Also there was a change since coreutils v9.5 where we don't call the GET, Yes, that is for efficiency in the common case where the

bug#74692: ls -la unexpected output on NFS shares, possibly due to listxattr in gnulib

2025-01-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
I've CC'd linux-nfs in case anyone there has some insight as to why listxattr() is more restrictive on NFS than locally, returning EACCES for files without read access. Details below... On 09/01/2025 04:55, Paul Eggert wrote: Thanks, but is this part of the change needed? + else if (f->acl_ty