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31 .Dt EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_TO_STRING 3
34 .Nm extattr_namespace_to_string ,
35 .Nm extattr_string_to_namespace
36 .Nd convert an extended attribute namespace identifier to a string and vice versa
42 .Fn extattr_namespace_to_string "int attrnamespace" "char **string"
44 .Fn extattr_string_to_namespace "const char *string" "int *attrnamespace"
47 .Fn extattr_namespace_to_string
48 function converts a VFS extended attribute identifier to a human-readable
51 .Fn extattr_string_to_namespace
52 converts a human-readable string representing a namespace to a
54 Although a file system may implement arbitrary namespaces,
55 these functions only support the
56 .Dv EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_USER
59 .Dv EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM
65 These functions are meant to be used in error reporting and other
68 instead of printing the integer identifying an extended attribute in
71 .Fn extattr_namespace_to_string
72 to obtain a human-readable representation.
74 instead of requiring a user to enter the integer representing a namespace,
75 an interactive program might ask for a name and use
76 .Fn extattr_string_to_namespace
77 to get the desired identifier.
79 If any of the calls are unsuccessful, the value \-1 is returned
80 and the global variable
82 is set to indicate the error.
86 The requested namespace could not be identified.
90 .Xr extattr_get_file 2 ,
91 .Xr extattr_copy_file 3 ,
94 Extended attribute support was developed as part of the
96 Project, and introduced in
100 It was developed to support security extensions requiring additional labels
101 to be associated with each file or directory.