Xattrs broken on Docker

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When you delete Xattrs on Docker on Circle CI, it doesn’t appear to delete them, it appears to just set their value to “”. This seems to be a recent problem in the past few weeks.

This is the behaviour of xattrs on my Circle CI docker instance:

root@07c3f8331369:/builds# touch cat
root@07c3f8331369:/builds# xattr -w user.foo bar cat
root@07c3f8331369:/builds# xattr -d user.foo cat
root@07c3f8331369:/builds# xattr cat
user.foo
root@07c3f8331369:/builds# xattr -p user.foo cat
# strace -e getxattr xattr -p user.foo cat
getxattr("cat", "user.foo", NULL, 0)    = 0
getxattr("cat", "user.foo", "", 0)      = 0

This is the behaviour of xattrs on a normal computer:

$ touch cat
$ xattr -w user.foo bar cat
$ xattr -d user.foo cat
$ xattr cat
$