From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [Acl-devel] Moving attr(5) man page to man-pages Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:58:10 +0200 Message-ID: <55378CD2.7060408@gmail.com> References: <5537620E.3000601@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: =?windows-1252?Q?Andreas_Gr=FCnbacher?= Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , acl-devel-qX2TKyscuCcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Andreas, On 04/22/2015 12:42 PM, Andreas Gr=FCnbacher wrote: > Michael, >=20 > 2015-04-22 10:55 GMT+02:00 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) : >> Hi Andreas, >> I'll move this page into Section 7, since that's where overview >> type pages such as this are normally placed in man-pages, but >> I'll also create a link in Section 5, so that acl(5) references >> will continue to work. >=20 > okay. >=20 >> I've made a number of edits to the page. Some of these were just >> to bring the page closer to man-pages style, >=20 > The \(em dashes don't render in terminals very well. What's the problem? (Many existing pages use \(em dashes so this change was just for consistency.) >> but others were to amend incorrect technical details and add new >> details. I'd be pleased if you checked over these commits >=20 > Thanks, that all looks good. Thanks for checking. > In addition, I would remove the list of file systems with extended > attribute support; they are supported pretty much everywhere to some > degree at least, even on tmpfs. =46air enough. I see your patch does that. > I'm attaching a patch that also includes a few other minor changes. Thanks! Applied. By the way, the piece=20 The list of attribute names that can be returned is also=20 limited to 64 kB. Is a limitation that affects listxattr(2), right? Maybe I should add=20 a sentence on that point to that page. Also, what does this mean is someone (tries to) create(s) more than 64 kB of attribute names on a file? Do you get an error on setxattr(),=20 or is it the case that some names are unretrievable? Hmm... some light testing (using XFS) suggests that one can create=20 more than 64 kB of attribute names, but then listxattr() fails=20 with E2BIG. That seems like a sad corner case :-(. Cheers, Michael --=20 Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html