fgetxattr(2)


NAME

   getxattr, lgetxattr, fgetxattr - retrieve an extended attribute value

SYNOPSIS

   #include <sys/types.h>
   #include <attr/xattr.h>

   ssize_t getxattr (const char *path, const char *name,
                        void *value, size_t size);
   ssize_t lgetxattr (const char *path, const char *name,
                        void *value, size_t size);
   ssize_t fgetxattr (int filedes, const char *name,
                        void *value, size_t size);

DESCRIPTION

   Extended attributes are name: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).

   getxattr  retrieves  the  value of the extended attribute identified by
   name and associated with the given path in the filesystem.  The  length
   of the attribute value is returned.

   lgetxattr  is  identical  to getxattr, except in the case of a symbolic
   link, where the link itself is  interrogated,  not  the  file  that  it
   refers to.

   fgetxattr  is  identical  to getxattr, only the open file pointed to by
   filedes (as returned by open(2)) is interrogated 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.   The  value  of  an
   extended  attribute  is  a chunk of arbitrary textual or binary data of
   specified length.

   An empty buffer of size zero can be passed into these calls  to  return
   the  current size of the named extended attribute, which can be used to
   estimate the size of a buffer which is sufficiently large to  hold  the
   value associated with the extended attribute.

   The  interface  is  designed to allow guessing of initial buffer sizes,
   and to enlarge buffers when the return value indicates that the  buffer
   provided was too small.

RETURN VALUE

   On  success,  a  positive number is returned indicating the size of the
   extended attribute value.  On failure, -1 is returned and errno is  set
   appropriately.

   If  the named attribute does not exist, or the process has no access to
   this attribute, errno is set to ENOATTR.

   If the size of the value buffer is too small to hold the result,  errno
   is set to ERANGE.

   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), listxattr(2),
   removexattr(2), and attr(5).


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