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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getxattr.2 | 16 |
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diff --git a/man2/getxattr.2 b/man2/getxattr.2 index 21df6ca..6d7a0ee 100644 --- a/man2/getxattr.2 +++ b/man2/getxattr.2 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later .\" -.TH getxattr 2 2023-07-28 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH getxattr 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME getxattr, lgetxattr, fgetxattr \- retrieve an extended attribute value .SH LIBRARY @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <sys/xattr.h> -.PP +.P .BI "ssize_t getxattr(const char *" path ", const char *" name , .BI " void " value [. size "], size_t " size ); .BI "ssize_t lgetxattr(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 getxattr () retrieves the value of the extended attribute identified by .I name @@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ The attribute value is placed in the buffer pointed to by specifies the size of that buffer. The return value of the call is the number of bytes placed in .IR value . -.PP +.P .BR lgetxattr () is identical to .BR getxattr (), except in the case of a symbolic link, where the link itself is interrogated, not the file that it refers to. -.PP +.P .BR fgetxattr () is identical to .BR getxattr (), @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ only the open file referred to by .BR open (2)) is interrogated in place of .IR path . -.PP +.P An extended attribute .I name is a null-terminated string. @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ namespaces associated with an individual inode. The value of an extended attribute is a chunk of arbitrary textual or binary data that was assigned using .BR setxattr (2). -.PP +.P If .I size is specified as zero, these calls return the current size of the @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ The of the .I value buffer is too small to hold the result. -.PP +.P In addition, the errors documented in .BR stat (2) can also occur. |