Subject: Re: bug#77597: coreutils 9.6: regression in handling security.selinux attribute for ls(1)

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:27:58 +0100

On 08/04/2025 08:06, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-04-07 15:52, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> So maybe we class this as a kernel bug and have the kernel
>> return non 0 for this case, or even ENOTSUP.
> 
> Yes, this sounds right to me. The kernel should not pretend that there
> are no attributes when there are attributes. If the kernel doesn't want
> to tell us attribute names, it should return -1 and set errno to a value
> saying "I don't want to tell you".

OK, given this is is an uncommon edge case
let's push for a kernel fix, rather than
a partial or inefficient workaround in ls.

Rahul can you report this to the appropriate kernel folks?

thank you,
Pádraig