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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:33:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030605113310.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030604230139.7CB742A8C3@canning.wemm.org>

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On 04-Jun-2003 Peter Wemm wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, and please do.  Thanks. :)

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