xattr doesn't work on Beta 4?

[younker]

After upgrade to Beta 4, when I run xattr, I always got the error of bad file descriptor.

Just wonder to know whether this is just my case.

 

[gilby101]

xattr file.ext works for me.

 

[mikejrslac]

I have the same problem with xattr in Monterey with “bad file descriptor” error. No problem in Big Sur.

 

[Chinyaev]

Same problem in Beta 4, in beta 3 was ok

 

[08380728]

Try ‘sudo’ before the command

 

[gilby101]

Can you guys, give an example xattr command which fails, the error message, and the output of ls -le@ for the file. And just be certain the output from the command: which xattr

 

[08380728]

xattr -cr
Bad file descriptor
ls -le@ /Applications/ForkLift.app
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 10 randomuser admin 320 6 Jul 22:28 Contents
com.apple.quarantine 82

(actually sudo failed as well, thought it worked previously)

 

[gilby101]

Yes, I can reproduce the error with
xattr -cr /Applications/ForkLift.app

But no errors with
xattr -c /Applications/ForkLift.app

It seems to be the recursive option which causes trouble.

Why the r? Do any files inside the app bundle have xattrs? Not that I could find.

 

[visualseed]

Yes, I can reproduce the error with
xattr -cr /Applications/ForkLift.app

But no errors with
xattr -c /Applications/ForkLift.app

It seems to be the recursive option which causes trouble.

Why the r? Do any files inside the app bundle have xattrs? Not that I could find.

Yes, I dropped the -r argument and it worked fine