(Following up long after the fact...) Thanks for CCing me Ted. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Wang Sheng-Hui has sent some patches that change listxattr for the extN > file systems to return ENODATA when an inode has no extended attributes > (instead of zero). > > I've noted that neither btrfs nor XFS do this, and would have rejected > the patches on that basis. However, I'll note the man page for the > listxattr(2) syscall is ambiguous: > > On success, a positive number is returned indicating the size of the > extended attribute name list. On failure, -1 is returned and errno is > set appropriately. > > It states that on success a _positive_ number is returned. I've looked > and this wordining is in SGI's man page as well. I suspect the man page > should be corrected to sate that "non-negative" number is returned? Thanks. Fixed now, to say "nonnegative". Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
