Ted, On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > It might also be a good idea to document explicitly whether or not > things like fstat() and the syscalls to manipulate extended attributes > are expected to work. Good point. From some testing, it appears that syscalls such as fstat() and fgetxattr() fail with EBADF on O_PATH fds. I'll add that to the text. Thanks, 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-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html