• NAME
  
  removexattr, lremovexattr, fremovexattr - remove an extended attribute
• SYNOPSIS
  

  
   #include <sys/types.h>
   #include <attr/xattr.h>
  
   int removexattr (const char\ * path , const char\ * name );
    int lremovexattr (const char\ * path , const char\ * name );   int fremovexattr (int  filedes , const char\ * name ); 

• DESCRIPTION
  
  Extended attributes are
  name :c
  value pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
  They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
  with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
  stat(2)
  data).
  A complete overview of extended attributes concepts can be found in
  attr(5) .
  
  
  
  removexattr removes the extended attribute identified by
  name
  and associated with the given
  path
  in the filesystem.
  
  
  
  lremovexattr is identical to
  removexattr ,
  except in the case of a symbolic link, where the extended attribute is
  removed from the link itself, not the file that it refers to.
  
  
  
  fremovexattr is identical to
  removexattr ,
  only the extended attribute is removed from the open file pointed to by
  filedes
  (as returned by
  open(2) )
  in place of
  path .
  
  
  
  An extended attribute name is a simple NULL-terminated string.
  The
  name
  includes a namespace prefix - there may be several, disjoint
  namespaces associated with an individual inode.
  
• RETURN VALUE
  
  On success, zero is returned.
  On failure, -1 is returned and
  errno
  is set appropriately.
  
  
  
  If the named attribute does not exist,
  errno
  is set to ENOATTR.
  
  
  
  If extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem, or are disabled,
  errno
  is set to ENOTSUP.
  
  
  
  The errors documented for the
  stat(2)
  system call are also applicable here.
  
• AUTHORS
  
  Andreas Gruenbacher,
  < a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at > and the SGI XFS development team,
  < linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com >. Please send any bug reports or comments to these addresses.
  
• SEE ALSO
  
  getfattr(1) ,
  setfattr(1) ,
  open(2) ,
  stat(2) ,
  setxattr(2) ,
  getxattr(2) ,
  listxattr(2) ,
  and
  attr(5) .
  

Current Users: 140 © 1999-2009 PenguinSoft. All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.