Re: [PATCH v2] errno.3: ENODATA is an XSI STREAMS extension

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Florian,

On 3/20/21 8:08 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> Would it make sense to mention that this error code is reused for
> extended attributes?
> 

Hmm, I think so.  In fact, AFAICS in the man-pages, it is only used for
that:

[
$ grep -rn ENODATA man?
man2/setxattr.2:124:.B ENODATA
man2/setxattr.2:129:.\" .BR ENODATA
man2/getxattr.2:118:.B ENODATA
man2/getxattr.2:123:.\" .BR ENODATA
man2/removexattr.2:85:.B ENODATA
man2/removexattr.2:89:.\" .BR ENODATA
man3/errno.3:405:.B ENODATA
]

Proposal:

[
       ENODATA
              The  named  attribute does not exist, or the process
              has no access to this attribute.

              In POSIX.1-2001 (XSI STREAMS option), this error was
              described as  "No message is available on the STREAM
              head read queue".

]

What do you think about it?

Thanks,

Alex


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