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Add brief mention of the extattr_*_link() system call variants.

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Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
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Robert Watson 2002-10-09 22:26:48 +00:00
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lib/libc/sys/extattr_get_file.2
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@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
.Nm extattr_get_file ,
.Nm extattr_set_file ,
.Nm extattr_delete_file
.Nm extattr_get_link ,
.Nm extattr_set_link ,
.Nm extattr_delete_link
.Nd system calls to manipulate VFS extended attributes
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
@ -54,6 +57,12 @@
.Fn extattr_set_file "const char *path" "int attrnamespace" "const char *attrname" "const void *data" "size_t nbytes"
.Ft int
.Fn extattr_delete_file "const char *path" "int attrnamespace" "const char *attrname"
.Ft ssize_t
.Fn extattr_get_link "const char *path" "int attrnamespace" "const char *attrname" "void *data" "size_t nbytes"
.Ft int
.Fn extattr_set_link "const char *path" "int attrnamespace" "const char *attrname" "const void *data" "size_t nbytes"
.Ft int
.Fn extattr_delete_link "const char *path" "int attrnamespace" "const char *attrname"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Named extended attributes are meta-data associated with vnodes
representing files and directories.
@ -97,6 +106,13 @@ in a call to
then the size of defined extended attribute data will be returned, rather
than the quantity read, permitting applications to test the size of the
data without performing a read.
The
.Fn extattr_delete_link ,
.Fn extattr_get_link ,
and
.Fn extattr_set_link
functions behave in the same way as their _file counterparts, except that
they do not follow symlinks.
.Pp
The
.Fn extatttr_get_fd ,