bug#27269: Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions

[Assaf Gordon]

severity 27269 wishlist
stop

Hello,

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> > One can perhaps infer that fsetxattr/fgetxattr do not work on NTFS
> > mounts, but also don't fail with ENOTSUP.
In a follow-up thread in bug-gnulib@ [1], Paul Eggert wrote [2]:

  "This sounds like a bug inside the kernel then, in the ntfs code
  presumably. Perhaps we could work around the bug in Gnulib, but that
  sounds a bit expensive."

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-11/msg00031.html
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-11/msg00035.html


I'm therefore marking this as a "wishlist" item (but keeping it open, 
for future improvements).

regards,
 - assaf