From: Phillip Susi Subject: chattr: operation not supported ( on symlinks ) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:16:24 -0500 Message-ID: <531A2918.9020108@ubuntu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ext4 development Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:41145 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751649AbaCGUQ1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 15:16:27 -0500 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It seems that symlinks return -ENOTSUP for lsattr, causing chattr -R to spew errors. Why don't symlinks support attributes, and if not, shouldn't chattr know this and suppress operating on symlinks instead of spewing errors? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTGikYAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwXhgH/3ZMK5OBUNRK6Pty+lSk/aj6 P7KkeLkJl16TaeNFp/rFoDju16PA/I3uPQipY25VdNYNCVMEmQOd0i//55gU47ur ZtdjAD4vMNTpFsV/oxjrx+f6kp1OqYKylConQxo/AAS+YDHq7adCds31N8mny1o8 WI/TYp3M4uGtQQ2yHF5j7jvZNR2gacMrXfN+6fbdIP99I2j4v4eHdvJJRQuo5vun Q2ZQw5a/GGPlXUYcIcnFkmXlNDJIfGO7WPxXfaUbspQwRH21Ithr61pk1LVLZjN9 eptvSQpXBhKdQzeAMbUKS5AIoN7u0KMcIErfhR2mwDncfCcsI/PPTQSSf8B1L0o= =vzkc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----