Semantics of setting an extended attribute to empty vs removexattr?

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Hi,

Does anybody have an opinion on whether setting an extended attribute
to empty using the setxattr interface is supposed to be semantically
equivalent to removing the xattr using removexattr?

I rather wish this were the case in the interest of a robust usage
model, but I pessimistically expect to learn that, no, an empty xattr
is indeed different from an nonexistent xattr, similer to environment
variables.

Regards,

Daniel
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