fsetxattr() fails on file-descriptor that was opened as read/write

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Extended attributes can not be written to files opened O_RDWR unless open() mode has user write set, i.e. S_IWUSR 00200
  • ftruncate() does not have this same requirement

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • fsetxattr
  • fremovexattr

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