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authorrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-04 04:03:58 +0000
committerrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-04 04:03:58 +0000
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Document the BUG (feature) that you can pass in an empty name to
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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diff --git a/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9 b/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9
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--- a/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/VOP_GETEXTATTR.9
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\"-
-.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001 Robert N. M. Watson
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 Robert N. M. Watson
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -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.
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