On 04/05/2014 11:25 PM, Abhay Sachan wrote: > Hi, > > The manpage for getxattr() says : "On success, a positive number > is returned indicating the size of the extended attribute value." > > But in case the value length is zero, we should return the size as > zero (as is done by ext4, xfs). Thus "positive" number kind looks > misleading. So it should be changed to "nonnegative". Thanks, Abhay. Applied. Cheers, Michael > diff --git a/man2/getxattr.2 b/man2/getxattr.2 > index adc7617..c343c34 100644 > --- a/man2/getxattr.2 > +++ b/man2/getxattr.2 > @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ The interface is designed to allow guessing of initial buffer > sizes, and to enlarge buffers when the return value indicates > that the buffer provided was too small. > .SH RETURN VALUE > -On success, a positive number is returned indicating the size of the > +On success, a nonnegative number is returned indicating the size of the > extended attribute value. > On failure, \-1 is returned and > .I errno > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
