On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 08:44:50PM +0100, you wrote:
Thanks! Attached is the strace output. So it seems that the problem occurs at lines 124-125 of the strace output: the lstat succeeds, but then lgetxattr("Module-C3/jun13-C3R.pdf", "security.selinux", 0xbee100, 255) fails, at which point the error message is written out to stderr.So I wonder whether it is because encfs doesn't interact very well with linux attibutes?
So it's a problem at a lower level: there's no reasonable way for coreutils to guess that ENOENT in this case really means ENOTSUP or EINVAL or something. I'd guess maybe encfs, which should be returning an appropriate error code? Or maybe fuse; I don't really know much about how those are implemented.
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