cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Wed Jun 4 16:01:42 PDT 2003


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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