Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master

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Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Date
4 Jun 2003 16:01:41
Subject
Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master
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20030604230139.7CB742A8C3@canning.wemm.org


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John Baldwin wrote:
> On 04-Jun-2003 Robert Watson wrote:
> > rwatson 2003/06/03 20:49:31 PDT
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sys/kern syscalls.master
> > Log:
> > Add system calls to explicitly list extended attributes on a
> > file/directory/link, rather than using a less explicit hack on
> > the extattr retrieval API:
> >
> > extattr_list_fd()
> > extattr_list_file()
> > extattr_list_link()
> >
> > The existing API was counter-intuitive, and poorly documented.
> > The prototypes for these system calls are identical to
> > extattr_get_*(), but without a specific attribute name to
> > leave NULL.
>
> Don't forget the ia32 syscall.master's for amd64 and ia64.

We've got to merge these. I'll take a shot at it in the next few
days since I'm familiar with both.

Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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