On Wednesday 24 September 2008 16:41, Nathan Scott wrote: > 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. Yes, and Tux3 will be revised to toe the line, it's no big deal. Thanks for reading me the man page :-/ Regards, Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
