Hi Heinrich, On 02/09/2015 10:18 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Hello Michael, > > listxattr is implemented individually by the different filesystems. > > Tmpfs delivered a double zero in my tests. The length included this double zero. It's not so obvious to me where this could be happening. Looking at fs/xattr.c::simple_xattr_list() I don't see a second '\0' being added. (I haven't built a kernel with TMPFS_XATTR in order to test the behavior.) Cheers Michael -- 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