fopen extended attributes

Andreas Gruenbacher agruen at suse.de
Wed Jul 4 09:15:50 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 04 July 2007 02:49, Jack Bates wrote:
> Are ext3 file system extended attributes mapped anywhere to file system
> paths? e.g. /sys/fs/ext3/<path>/<attr-name>?

No, they're not.

> I want to edit a file's extended attribute using standard system calls,
> fopen, fread, fwrite, etc. Is it possible?

Sorry no. You can only access them using the *xattr syscalls.

Andreas




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