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| author | Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-06-04 04:03:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-06-04 04:03:58 +0000 |
| commit | e652f5ba749c4a989f169d0a48a7a5ba07e621e8 (patch) | |
| tree | de7835dde51cd602e08b88d0a0e1cfd8c0456196 /share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9 | |
| parent | d160576639cd4ad0ddb47fb718c4739bcbe3f3a7 (diff) | |
Document the BUG (feature) that you can pass in an empty name to
VOP_GETEXTATTR() to retrieve the attribute name list on some file
systems, and note that this will be replaced with its own VOP
in due course.
Pointed out by: Dominic Giampaolo <dbg@apple.com>
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=115804
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9 b/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9 index 893e040d7cce..37d981ac796d 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"- -.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001 Robert N. M. Watson +.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 Robert N. M. Watson .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -123,3 +123,8 @@ The file system does not support .Xr extattr 9 , .Xr vnode 9 , .Xr VOP_SETEXTATTR 9 +.Sh BUGS +By passing in the empty string as the attribute name, some file systems +will return a list of defined names on the target vnode for the +requested namespace. +This is a bad API, and will be replaced by an explicit VOP. |