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Re: ENOATTR vs ENODATA



Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost> wrote:

> What about backwards compat then? ENOATTR != ENODATA, so any code that
> used ENOATTR will now break.
> 
> I remember reading that the attribute code was non-functional, and could
> not be used. Are we sure that there is no other place where it could be
> used but for another purpose?

You are right. We had no formal release with working extended
attributes, therefore we cannot break backwardcompatibility.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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