Re: [PATCH 1/9] libxfs: break out the GETXATTR/SETXATTR manpage

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On 6/15/19 11:43 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:17:10PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 6/7/19 2:29 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
>>> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Break out the xfs file attribute get and set ioctls into a separate
>>> manpage to reduce clutter in xfsctl.
>>
>> <comes up for air>
>>
>> Now that we've uh, hoisted it to be a generic vfs interface,
>> FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR, shouldn't we be documenting it as that instead
>> of the (old) xfs variant?
> 
> No, first we document the old xfs ioctl, then we move the manpage over
> to the main man-pages.git project as the vfs ioctl, and then we update
> the xfsprogs manpage to say "Please refer to the VFS documentation but
> in case your system doesn't have it, here you go..." :)

I guess it's kind of a sad state of affairs that I'm not quite sure
if this is serious.  :)

>>
>> (honestly that'd be mostly just search and replace for this patch)
>>
>> Except of course XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTRA has no vfs variant.  :/
>>
>> I also wonder if FS_IOC_SETFLAGS should be mentioned, and/or a
>> SEE_ALSO because some of the functionality overlaps?
> 
> Oh, wow, there's actually a manpage for it...
> 
> ...bleh, it's the weekend, I'll respond to the rest later.

ok thanks

-Eric



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