Add conditional support for excluding types of files from xattr ops.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/flist.c b/flist.c
index 1dee0874..7208efa4 100644
--- a/flist.c
+++ b/flist.c
@@ -1476,6 +1476,7 @@ static struct file_struct *send_file_name(int f, struct file_list *flist,
 #endif
 #ifdef SUPPORT_XATTRS
 		if (preserve_xattrs) {
+			sx.st.st_mode = file->mode;
 			if (get_xattr(fname, &sx) < 0) {
 				io_error |= IOERR_GENERAL;
 				return NULL;