Re: [PATCH] getxattr.2, listxattr.2: Document E2BIG errors

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 02/23/2017 10:56 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Thanks, Andreas! Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  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)
> 


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