Bug#962912: glib2.0: g_file_copy_attributes() chokes on binary xattr values

[Philip Withnall]

On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 23:17 +0200, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> Package: libglib2.0-0
> Version: 2.58.3-2+deb10u2
> Severity: important
> 
> g_file_copy_attributes(), when invoked with G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA
> on
> files in NFS, is prone to truncating the value of extended attribute
> system.nfs4_acl. Here is an excerpt from strace output, showing the
> getxattr() and setxattr() calls:

It’s this issue upstream:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/422

Nobody has yet found time to work on it; merge requests are welcome!

Philip