bug#78328: Copy fails setting system.nfs4_acl extended attribute [cp (GNU coreutils) 9.7.7-6218c]

This works for me.


On Fri, 2025-05-09 at 22:23 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2025-05-09 02:32, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > This is actually being looked at in:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2363149
> > 
> > There is a proposed patch there.
> 
> I looked at that patch, and although it sorta works it has a memory leak 
> and it issues unnecessary system calls in the normal case. I wrote a 
> more comprehensive patch and installed it into Gnulib; see attached 
> (which combines two Gnulib patches). I've merged this into bleeding-edge 
> Coreutils on Savannah so someone who builds from Git can simply do that 
> to try it out.
> 
> I hope that someone who can reproduce the bug can try this patch out. I 
> didn't reproduce the bug on my RHEL 9.5 host with a NetApp NFS server, 
> but NFS is kinda tricky that way.