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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man3/extattr.3 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man3/extattr.3 b/static/netbsd/man3/extattr.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..933b2b85 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man3/extattr.3 @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: extattr.3,v 1.7 2025/03/09 16:33:35 christos Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> +.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@NetBSD.org> +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/posix1e/extattr.3,v 1.5 2002/12/12 17:25:53 ru Exp +.\" +.Dd March 9, 2025 +.Dt EXTATTR 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm extattr_namespace_to_string , +.Nm extattr_string_to_namespace +.Nd convert an extended attribute namespace identifier to a string and vice versa +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/extattr.h +.Ft int +.Fn extattr_namespace_to_string "int attrnamespace" "char **string" +.Ft int +.Fn extattr_string_to_namespace "const char *string" "int *attrnamespace" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn extattr_namespace_to_string +function converts a VFS extended attribute identifier to a human-readable +string. +The +.Fn extattr_string_to_namespace +converts a human-readable string representing a namespace to a +namespace identifier. +Although a file system may implement arbitrary namespaces, +these functions only support the +.Dv EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_USER +.Pq Dq user +and +.Dv EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM +.Pq Dq system +namespaces, +which are defined in +.Xr extattr 9 . +.Pp +These functions are meant to be used in error reporting and other +interactive tasks. +For example, +instead of printing the integer identifying an extended attribute in +an error message, +a program might use +.Fn extattr_namespace_to_string +to obtain a human-readable representation. +Likewise, +instead of requiring a user to enter the integer representing a namespace, +an interactive program might ask for a name and use +.Fn extattr_string_to_namespace +to get the desired identifier. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If any of the calls are unsuccessful, the value \-1 is returned +and the global variable +.Va errno +is set to indicate the error. +.Sh ERRORS +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The requested namespace could not be identified. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr getextattr 1 , +.Xr extattr_get_file 2 , +.Xr extattr_copy_file 3 , +.Xr extattr 9 +.Sh HISTORY +Extended attribute support was developed as part of the +.Tn TrustedBSD +Project, and introduced in +.Fx 5.0 +and +.Nx 3.0 . +It was developed to support security extensions requiring additional labels +to be associated with each file or directory. |
