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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/ntea.cc13
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 21ec061..8ec0a07 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2009-11-18 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+ * ntea.cc (read_ea): Always add length of "user." prefix, not only
+ on Samba. Change comment.
+
+2009-11-18 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
* ntea.cc (read_ea): Try to open file first to have more sensible
error codes. Always refuse non "user." EAs for Linux compatibility
and return EOPNOTSUPP. Fix handling of empty (== non-existant) EAs.
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ntea.cc b/winsup/cygwin/ntea.cc
index 7e3240a..147b672 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ntea.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ntea.cc
@@ -156,8 +156,7 @@ read_ea (HANDLE hdl, path_conv &pc, const char *name, char *value, size_t size)
ret = 0;
do
{
- if (pc.fs_is_samba ()) /* See below. */
- fea->EaNameLength += 5;
+ fea->EaNameLength += 5; /* "user." */
if (size > 0)
{
if ((size_t) ret + fea->EaNameLength + 1 > size)
@@ -165,11 +164,11 @@ read_ea (HANDLE hdl, path_conv &pc, const char *name, char *value, size_t size)
set_errno (ERANGE);
goto out;
}
- /* Samba hides the user namespace from Windows clients. We add
- it in EA listings to keep tools like attr/getfattr/setfattr
- happy. */
- char tmpbuf[MAX_EA_NAME_LEN * 2], *tp = tmpbuf;
- tp = stpcpy (tmpbuf, "user.");
+ /* For compatibility with Linux, we always prepend "user." to
+ the attribute name, so effectively we only support user
+ attributes from a application point of view. */
+ char tmpbuf[MAX_EA_NAME_LEN * 2];
+ char *tp = stpcpy (tmpbuf, "user.");
stpcpy (tp, fea->EaName);
/* NTFS stores all EA names in uppercase unfortunately. To keep
compatibility with ext/xfs EA namespaces and accompanying