Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/getxattr.2 | 5 +++++ man2/listxattr.2 | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/getxattr.2 b/man2/getxattr.2 index c06c92f..83945fe 100644 --- a/man2/getxattr.2 +++ b/man2/getxattr.2 @@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ The of the .I value buffer is too small to hold the result. +.TP +.B E2BIG +The size of the attribute value is larger than the maximum size allowed; the +attribute cannot be retrieved. This can happen on filesystems that support +very large attribute values such as NFSv4, for example. .PP In addition, the errors documented in .BR stat (2) diff --git a/man2/listxattr.2 b/man2/listxattr.2 index 9c14679..e923af4 100644 --- a/man2/listxattr.2 +++ b/man2/listxattr.2 @@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ The of the .I list buffer is too small to hold the result. +.TP +.B E2BIG +The size of the list of extended attribute names is larger than the maximum +size allowed; the list cannot be retrieved. This can happen on filesystems that +support an unlimited number of extended attributes per file such as XFS, for +example. .PP In addition, the errors documented in .BR stat (2) -- 2.7.4 -- 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
