On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 02:23:23PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > : - root > bar - an attribute > foo: - a folder (can contain attributes and/or folders) > > The contents of a folder is represented by a null separated list of names. > > Examples: > > $ getfattr -etext -n ":" . > # file: . > :="mnt:\000mntns:" In your example, does it matter what "." is? It looks like in some cases, it makes no difference at all, and in other cases, like this, '.' *does* matter: > $ getfattr -etext -n ":mnt:info" . > # file: . > :mnt:info="21 1 254:0 / / rw,relatime - ext4 /dev/root rw\012" Is that right? > $ getfattr -etext -n ":mntns:" . > # file: . > :mntns:="21:\00022:\00024:\00025:\00023:\00026:\00027:\00028:\00029:\00030:\00031:" What is this returning? All possible mount name spaces? Or all of the mount spaces where '.' happens to exist? Also, using the null character means that we can't really use shell scripts calling getfattr. I understand that the problem is that in some cases, you might want to return a pathname, and NULL is the only character which is guaranteed not to show up in a pathname. However, it makes parsing the returned value in a shell script exciting. - Ted
