On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:16 AM, <starlight.2013q1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Just noticed that the getxattr() man page > says that ENOATTR is returned when an > extended attribute is not present. > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getxattr.2.html > > I believe the correct code for this > situation is ENODATA or 61. > > strace getcap /bin/bash > > should confirm that. Yup, others have also noted this; see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51871 The point is that ENOATTR is a synonym for ENODATA. For each of the relevant pages, I've simply added the text: "(ENOATTR is defined to be a synonym for ENODATA in <attr/xattr.h>.)" 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
