getfattr and setfattr should return non-zero on fail

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Subject:	getfattr and setfattr should return non-zero on fail
From:	bjartur <svartman95@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:07:38 +0000
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When setfattr or getfattr fail, they return zero as a return code,
just as they do on success. This makes conditioning on fail/success
unnecessarily hard.

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