Thank you Theodore.
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Title:
e2fsprogs - could not preserve ACL permissions : The getxattr()
returns with (EINVAL)
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Hi Theodore,
The write_xattrs_to_buffer is already doing other modifications to the
xattrs, like sorting keys. (look for qsort). The changes I made are a
logical extension to that.
Further refinement might need a larger bunch of changes. I don't have
the bandwidth for this now unfortunately.
Sa
Hello Theodore,
Thank you for the feedback. I only had mke2fs in mind when trying to
look for a fix as this solves my immediate problem - to be able to
preserve ACLs when creating a filesystem via the Yocto build system.
I agree that the ext2fs_{read,write}_ functions may be a better place to
fix
Hello,
I have a fix for this and the patch is attached. I couldn't find the
right mailing list for e2fsprogs. Until I find that, this is a good
place to upload the patch.
mke2fs was copying the ACL in the POSIX extended attribute format. The
attached patch converts it to for format expected by th
