GNU bug report logs - #27269
Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions

Previous Next

Full log

Message #19 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 27269 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maiko Cezar Rodrigues Costa <maiko.cezar <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#27269: Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 05:24:18 -0600

severity 27269 wishlist
stop

Hello,

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> One can perhaps infer that fsetxattr/fgetxattr do not work on NTFS
>> mounts, but also don't fail with ENOTSUP.
In a follow-up thread in bug-gnulib@ [1], Paul Eggert wrote [2]:

  "This sounds like a bug inside the kernel then, in the ntfs code
  presumably. Perhaps we could work around the bug in Gnulib, but that
  sounds a bit expensive."

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-11/msg00031.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-11/msg00035.html


I'm therefore marking this as a "wishlist" item (but keeping it open, 
for future improvements).

regards,
 - assaf

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.