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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
.\"
-.TH setxattr 2 2023-07-28 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH setxattr 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
setxattr, lsetxattr, fsetxattr \- set an extended attribute value
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/xattr.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int setxattr(const char *" path ", const char *" name ,
.BI " const void " value [. size "], size_t " size ", int " flags );
.BI "int lsetxattr(const char *" path ", const char *" name ,
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ with all inodes in the system (i.e., the
data).
A complete overview of extended attributes concepts can be found in
.BR xattr (7).
-.PP
+.P
.BR setxattr ()
sets the
.I value
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ The
argument specifies the size (in bytes) of
.IR value ;
a zero-length value is permitted.
-.PP
+.P
.BR lsetxattr ()
is identical to
.BR setxattr (),
except in the case of a symbolic link, where the extended attribute is
set on the link itself, not the file that it refers to.
-.PP
+.P
.BR fsetxattr ()
is identical to
.BR setxattr (),
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ only the extended attribute is set on the open file referred to by
.BR open (2))
in place of
.IR path .
-.PP
+.P
An extended attribute name is a null-terminated string.
The
.I name
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ The
.I value
of an extended attribute is a chunk of arbitrary textual or
binary data of specified length.
-.PP
+.P
By default
(i.e.,
.I flags
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem, or are disabled,
The file is marked immutable or append-only.
(See
.BR ioctl_iflags (2).)
-.PP
+.P
In addition, the errors documented in
.BR stat (2)
can also occur.