Re: question on freebsd extattr* system calls

From: Peter Pentchev (roam@ringlet.net)
Date: 05/31/02 

Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:28:15 +0300
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: paleph@pacbell.net

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:24:43PM -0700, paleph@pacbell.net wrote:
> Quick question
>
> Are there man pages available for the extattr* FreeBSD system calls?
> I see the following 4 system calls in the sysent table:
>
> extattrctl
> extattr_set_file
> extattr_get_file
> extattr_delete_file
>
> I am interested in the possible use of these to add ancillary
> security attributes to file system objects.

If you're looking at a FreeBSD 4.x syscalls.master file, those syscall
names and numbers are there for compatibility purposes only. They are
actually implemented in 5.0-CURRENT, and yes, there is a manual page
describing them there.

I do not think that there are any plans of merging the extended
attributes support functionality into FreeBSD 4.x; however, you might
want to check with the TrustedBSD Project site http://www.trustedbsd.org/
for more details.

G'luck,
Peter 

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