On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ben Martin wrote:
> I noticed that in the recent rpms for attr-devel there is a man
> page for attr_list again, though there doesn't seem to be a declaration
> in the headers for this function and nothing in the sources defining it.
>
> Should this function exist in a 2.4.18+ environment?
Looking at the version history, it seems attr_list has again been added to
the CVS repository after having been deleted: <http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/
cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/cmd/attr/man/man3/attr_list.3>.
I am sure the XFS developers will respond in a few hours, when their
working day starts.
Anyway, this function was there for backwards compatibility with Irix; I
don't know the details about why it was removed. On Linux you should use
the listxattr system call (see <http://acl.bestbits.at/man/man.shtml>).
Cheers,
Andreas.
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