On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 15:19 -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 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?
attr(5) states...
NAME
attr - Extended attributes
DESCRIPTION
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated permanently with
files and directories, similar to the environment strings associated
with a process. An attribute may be defined or undefined. If it is
defined, its value may be empty or non-empty.
XFS and extN certainly implement this property, I'd imagine all of the
other filesystems supporting extended attributes do as well.
cheers.
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Nathan
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