FreeBSD does not permits manipulating extended attributes in the system
namespace by unprivileged accounts, even if account has appropriate
privileges to access filesystem object.
In Linux the system namespace is used to preserve posix acls. Some Gnu
coreutils binaries uses posix acls, eg, install, ls, cp. And fails if
we unexpectedly return EPERM error from xattr system calls.
In the other hands, in Linux read and write access to the system
namespace depend on the policy implemented for each filesystem, so we'll
mimics we're a filesystem that prohibits this for unpriveleged accounts.
Reported by: zirias
Tested by: zirias
MFC after: 1 week
If size is specified as zero, these calls return the current size
of the list of extended attribute names (and leave list unchanged).
Tested by: zirias
MFC after: 1 week
FreeBSD does not permits manipulating extended attributes in the system
namespace by unprivileged accounts, even if account has appropriate
privileges to access filesystem object.
In Linux the system namespace is used to preserve posix acls. Some Gnu
coreutils binaries uses posix acls, eg, install, ls. And fails if we
unexpectedly return EPERM error from xattr system calls.
In the other hands, in Linux read and write access to the system
namespace depend on the policy implemented for each filesystem, so we'll
mimics we're a filesystem that prohibits this for unpriveleged accounts.
Reported by: zirias
Tested by: zirias
MFC after: 1 week
On Linux ENODATA mean the named attribute does not exist, or the
process has no access to this attribute.
Reported by: zirias
Tested by: zirias
MFC after: 1 week