GNU bug report logs - #77597
coreutils 9.6: regression in handling security.selinux attribute for ls(1)

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 77597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Rahul Sandhu <nvraxn <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#77597: coreutils 9.6: regression in handling security.selinux attribute for ls(1)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 00:06:44 -0700

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".

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