id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
249	LIBC extended attributes can cause non-EAs aware applictions to fail	Steven Levine	bird	"LIBC marks the Extended Attributes used to support unix file attribute emulation as critical (FEA_NEEDEA).  This prevents non-EA aware applications from opening these files on HPFS formatted volumes.

The particular use-case was that a user ran some application that applied LIBC EAs to uhpfs.dll.  Format.com reported

  SYS1311: The system files are missing.

because the DosLoadModule() libpath search failed to find a uhpfs.dll that could be opened.

Note that this issue does not affect jfs formatted volumes.  It appears that jfs.ifs does not check if the application supports EAs.

"	defect	closed	high	libc-0.6.5	libc-backend		normal	duplicate