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Subject: setfattr comments
From: <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:37:22 +0200 (MEST)
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Three remarks:

(i)
# setfattr -x user.gat -v 12 /mnt/aa
Usage: setfattr {-n name|-x name} [-v value] [-h] file...
Try `setfattr --help' for more information.
# setfattr -x user.gat /mnt/aa
#

The Usage: message is too complicated, and moreover wrong. Maybe make it
Usage: setfattr -n name [-v value] [-h] file...
   or: setfattr -x name [-h] file...

(ii)
# getfattr -d /mnt/aa
getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: mnt/aa
user.gut="abc"

#

It is unclear to me why getfattr has to tell me that it
is going to print the name given without a slash.
It seems silly - the working directory is nowhere near
/ or /mnt so this leading / is not at all superfluous,
and mnt/aa denotes an entirely different file.
(And it is not the name relative to the mountpoint either.)

Probably this is a leftover from ancient times that should be removed.
(Or is it an attempt to mimic tar?)

(iii)
The manpage tells me to send remarks to a.gruenbacher@xxxxxxxxxxxx
or linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, but the first address bounces.

Andries

By the way - is there improvement is the copyright situation?
Last I asked I was still not permitted to distribute the section 2-7
manpages in the manpages package.
[Requirement: page and modified versions can be distributed freely.]


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