Re: Section 2 or Section 3 calls?

Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:22:59 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.acl.devel
Organization SUSE LINUX Products GMBH
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 18:01, Kevin Goess wrote:
> Why would one want to the attr_* library calls rather than the *xattr
> system calls?  What would be the benefit?

attr_get, attr_getf, attr_set, attr_setf, attr_remove, attr_removef, 
attr_multi, and attr_multif are Irix / xfs compatibility functions. You 
should not have to use them unless you are porting Irix applications to Linux 
(or creating applications that are compatible between Irix and Linux).

-- Andreas.
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