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Document the BUG (feature) that you can pass in an empty name to

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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>
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Robert Watson 2003-06-04 04:03:58 +00:00
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.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001 Robert N. M. Watson
.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 Robert N. M. Watson
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@ -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.