fremovexattr(2) [redhat man page]

REMOVEXATTR(2)							   System calls 						    REMOVEXATTR(2)

NAME

       removexattr, lremovexattr, fremovexattr - remove an extended attribute

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <attr/xattr.h>

       int removexattr (const char *path, const char *name);
       int lremovexattr (const char *path, const char *name);
       int fremovexattr (int filedes, const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

       Extended  attributes  are  name: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 stat(2) data).  A complete overview of extended attributes concepts
       can be found in attr(5).

       removexattr removes the extended attribute identified by name and associated with the given path in the filesystem.

       lremovexattr  is  identical  to	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.

       fremovexattr is identical to removexattr, only the extended attribute is removed from the open file pointed to by filedes (as  returned	by
       open(2)) in place of path.

       An  extended  attribute	name  is  a  simple NULL-terminated string.  The name includes a namespace prefix - there may be several, disjoint
       namespaces associated with an individual inode.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, zero is returned.  On failure, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.

       If the named attribute does not exist, errno is set to ENOATTR.

       If extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem, or are disabled, errno is set to ENOTSUP.

       The errors documented for the stat(2) system call are also applicable here.

AUTHORS

       Andreas Gruenbacher, <a.gruenbacher@computer.org> and the SGI XFS development team, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>.  Please send any  bug  reports
       or comments to these addresses.

SEE ALSO

       getfattr(1), setfattr(1), open(2), stat(2), setxattr(2), getxattr(2), listxattr(2), and attr(5).

Dec 2001							Extended Attributes						    REMOVEXATTR(2)