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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
commit | 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 (patch) | |
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parent | Adding debian version 6.7-2. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/man2/removexattr.2 b/man/man2/removexattr.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc32898 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/removexattr.2 @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) Andreas Gruenbacher, February 2001 +.\" Copyright (C) Silicon Graphics Inc, September 2001 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.TH removexattr 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +removexattr, lremovexattr, fremovexattr \- remove an extended attribute +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <sys/xattr.h> +.P +.BI "int removexattr(const char *" path ", const char *" name ); +.BI "int lremovexattr(const char *" path ", const char *" name ); +.BI "int fremovexattr(int " fd ", const char *" name ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +Extended attributes are +.IR name : value +pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc.). +They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated +with all inodes in the system (i.e., the +.BR stat (2) +data). +A complete overview of extended attributes concepts can be found in +.BR xattr (7). +.P +.BR removexattr () +removes the extended attribute identified by +.I name +and associated with the given +.I path +in the filesystem. +.P +.BR lremovexattr () +is identical to +.BR removexattr (), +except in the case of a symbolic link, where the extended attribute is +removed from the link itself, not the file that it refers to. +.P +.BR fremovexattr () +is identical to +.BR removexattr (), +only the extended attribute is removed from the open file referred to by +.I fd +(as returned by +.BR open (2)) +in place of +.IR path . +.P +An extended attribute name is a null-terminated string. +The +.I name +includes a namespace prefix; there may be several, disjoint +namespaces associated with an individual inode. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, zero is returned. +On failure, \-1 is returned and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B ENODATA +The named attribute does not exist. +.\" .RB ( ENOATTR +.\" is defined to be a synonym for +.\" .BR ENODATA +.\" in +.\" .IR <attr/attributes.h> .) +.TP +.B ENOTSUP +Extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem, or are disabled. +.P +In addition, the errors documented in +.BR stat (2) +can also occur. +.SH STANDARDS +Linux. +.SH HISTORY +Linux 2.4, +glibc 2.3. +.\" .SH AUTHORS +.\" Andreas Gruenbacher, +.\" .RI < a.gruenbacher@computer.org > +.\" and the SGI XFS development team, +.\" .RI < linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com >. +.\" Please send any bug reports or comments to these addresses. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR getfattr (1), +.BR setfattr (1), +.BR getxattr (2), +.BR listxattr (2), +.BR open (2), +.BR setxattr (2), +.BR stat (2), +.BR symlink (7), +.BR xattr (7) |