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+.\"
+.\" Extended attributes system calls manual pages
+.\"
+.\" (C) Andreas Gruenbacher, February 2001
+.\" (C) Silicon Graphics Inc, September 2001
+.\"
+.TH REMOVEXATTR 2 "Extended Attributes" "Dec 2001" "System calls"
+.SH NAME
+removexattr, lremovexattr, fremovexattr \- remove an extended attribute
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.fam C
+.nf
+.B #include <attr/xattr.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int removexattr (const char\ *" path ", const char\ *" name );
+.BI "int lremovexattr (const char\ *" path ", const char\ *" name );
+.BI "int fremovexattr (int " filedes ", const char\ *" name );
+.fi
+.fam T
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Extended attributes are
+.IR name :\c
+value pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
+with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
+.BR stat (2)
+data).
+A complete overview of extended attributes concepts can be found in
+.BR attr (5).
+.PP
+.B removexattr
+removes the extended attribute identified by
+.I name
+and associated with the given
+.I path
+in the filesystem.
+.PP
+.B lremovexattr
+is identical to 
+.BR removexattr ,
+except in the case of a symbolic link, where the extended attribute is
+removed from the link itself, not the file that it refers to.
+.PP
+.B fremovexattr
+is identical to
+.BR removexattr ,
+only the extended attribute is removed from the open file pointed to by
+.I filedes
+(as returned by
+.BR open (2))
+in place of
+.IR path .
+.PP
+An extended attribute name is a simple NULL-terminated string.
+The
+.I name
+includes a namespace prefix \- there may be several, disjoint
+namespaces associated with an individual inode.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+On success, zero is returned.
+On failure, \-1 is returned and
+.I errno
+is set appropriately.
+.PP
+If the named attribute does not exist,
+.I errno
+is set to ENOATTR.
+.PP
+If extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem, or are disabled,
+.I errno
+is set to ENOTSUP.
+.PP
+The errors documented for the
+.BR stat (2)
+system call are also applicable here.
+.SH AUTHORS
+Andreas Gruenbacher,
+.RI < a.gruenbacher@computer.org >
+and the SGI XFS development team,
+.RI < linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com >.
+Please send any bug reports or comments to these addresses.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR getfattr (1),
+.BR setfattr (1),
+.BR open (2),
+.BR stat (2),
+.BR setxattr (2),
+.BR getxattr (2),
+.BR listxattr (2),
+and
+.BR attr (5).