bug#43723: 27.1; Errors in file-extended-attributes prevent from saving buffer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> When some volume is mounted such that file-extended-attributes fails
> for files there (because the agent used to mount doesn't support ACLs
> or SELinux), this prevents users from saving their edits to files on
> that volume, because file-extended-attributes signals an error.  This
> appears as a regression to users because Emacs 26 silently ignored
> such errors.
>
> To allow users to save the files in these cases, but still keep them
> informed about the loss of potentially important attributes, Emacs
> should probably warn about this, allow the user to decide he/she wants
> to ignore the problem, and record this fact somewhere, to avoid asking
> the same question again for the same volume.

Do you have a test case to reproduce this problem?  I don't really use
SELinux myself...

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