Public bug reported:
xattr seems to read attributes from symlinks, but always set them on the
underlying file. Here's an example by way of a shell session:
$ cd /tmp
$ touch target
$ ln -s target source
$ python -i
>>> import xattr
>>> symlink = xattr.xattr('source', options=xattr.XATTR_NOFOLLOW)
>>> underlying_file = xattr.xattr('target')
>>> symlink['user.test_xattr'] = '1'
# now we should have an attribute on the symlink itself, and nothing on
the underlying file. But the opposite is true:
>>> symlink['user.test_xattr']
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyError Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xattr/__init__.pyc in __getitem__(self, item)
131 return self.get(item)
132 except IOError:
--> 133 raise KeyError(item)
134
135 def iterkeys(self):
KeyError: 'user.test_xattr'
>>> underlying_file['user.test_xattr']
'1'
** Affects: python-xattr (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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cannot set attributes on symlink
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