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authorBarry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>2008-01-23 05:14:36 +0000
committerBarry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>2008-01-23 05:14:36 +0000
commitf91989e2465d525b746de3e52dfd30abee2de1b0 (patch)
treefd88c6f294697793ef1270e85bee215dfe22f844
parent770365fc7cdee68d0f397b376d49970ff396a296 (diff)
downloadattr-f91989e2465d525b746de3e52dfd30abee2de1b0.tar.gz
Fix minor problems with attr man pages
Merge of master-melb:xfs-cmds:30415a by kenmcd. Improve description for list argument
-rw-r--r--man/man2/listxattr.25
-rw-r--r--man/man3/attr_get.32
-rw-r--r--man/man3/attr_set.32
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2/listxattr.2 b/man/man2/listxattr.2
index 2776e96..893ff86 100644
--- a/man/man2/listxattr.2
+++ b/man/man2/listxattr.2
@@ -65,11 +65,14 @@ The length of the attribute name
is returned.
.PP
.B llistxattr
-is identical to
+is identical to
.BR listxattr ,
except in the case of a symbolic link, where the list of names of
extended attributes associated with the link itself is retrieved,
not the file that it refers to.
+.I list
+is a caller-allocated buffer of size
+.IR size .
.PP
.B flistxattr
is identical to
diff --git a/man/man3/attr_get.3 b/man/man3/attr_get.3
index c0ab084..4af0add 100644
--- a/man/man3/attr_get.3
+++ b/man/man3/attr_get.3
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ will have been modified to show the actual size of the
attribute value returned.
The
.I flags
-argument can contain the following symbols bitwise OR\'ed together:
+argument can contain the following symbols bitwise OR'ed together:
.TP
.SM
\%ATTR_ROOT
diff --git a/man/man3/attr_set.3 b/man/man3/attr_set.3
index 9637700..350ed46 100644
--- a/man/man3/attr_set.3
+++ b/man/man3/attr_set.3
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ buffer for a total of
bytes.
The
.I flags
-argument can contain the following symbols bitwise OR\'ed together:
+argument can contain the following symbols bitwise OR'ed together:
.TP
.SM
\%ATTR_ROOT