On Feb 3, 2014, at 3:03, Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:59:30PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> posix_acl_xattr_get requires get_acl() to return EOPNOTSUPP if the
>> filesystem cannot support acls. This is needed for NFS, which can't
>> know whether or not the server supports acls until it tries to get/set
>> one.
>> This patch converts posix_acl_chmod and posix_acl_create to deal with
>> EOPNOTSUPP return values from get_acl().
> 
> Shouldn't NFS just return a NULL ACL here?

As I said above, that causes posix_acl_xattr_get() to return the wrong answer 
(ENODATA instead of EOPNOTSUPP).

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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