RE: cp -p

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Ekanayake, Sumith wrote:

> even the "d" does not exist, I get the same error. Is their any way we 
> can try to recompile "cp source" for this version of Linux?

I'm afraid I don't know much about ACL support for Linux. What looks odd 
from the strace output is that getxattr fails with ENODATA, which is not 
a documented error code in the manpage I'm reading. Either the syscall 
"should" return ENOATTR if the requested attribute is not present or 
unreadable, or ENOTSUP is the filesystem doesn't support extended 
attributes.

I'm not convinced the strace output accurately reflects the intentions 
of the ABI, as I find both ENOATTR and ENOTSUP are hacky re-#defines to 
something else on my system. As you're using a RHEL-patched 
(coreutils-acl.diff, coreutils-acl+posix.diff), pretty old version of 
coreutils, I'd suggest asking on one of the Redhat lists or filing a 
bug.


Cheers,
Phil