1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001 Robert N. M. Watson 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd December 23, 1999 29.Os 30.Dt VOP_SETEXTATTR 9 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm VOP_SETEXTATTR 33.Nd set named extended attribute for a vnode 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.In sys/param.h 36.In sys/vnode.h 37.In sys/extattr.h 38.Ft int 39.Fn VOP_SETEXTATTR "struct vnode *vp" "int attrnamespace" "const char *name" "struct uio *uio" "struct ucred *cred" "struct thread *td" 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41This vnode call may be used to set specific named extended attribute for a 42file or directory. 43.Pp 44Its arguments are: 45.Bl -tag -width type 46.It Fa vp 47the vnode of the file or directory 48.It Fa attrnamespace 49integer constant indicating which extended attribute namespace the attribute 50name is present in 51.It Fa name 52pointer to a null-terminated character string containing the attribute name 53.It Fa uio 54the location of the data to be read or written 55.It Fa cred 56the user credentials to use in authorizing the request 57.It Fa td 58the thread setting the extended attribute 59.El 60.Pp 61The uio structure is used in a manner similar to the argument of the same 62name in 63.Xr VOP_WRITE 9 . 64However, as extended attributes provide a strict "name=value" semantic, 65non-zero offsets will be rejected. 66.Pp 67The 68.Fa uio 69pointer may be 70.Dv NULL 71to indicate that the specified extended attribute should be deleted. 72.Pp 73The 74.Fa cred 75pointer may be 76.Dv NULL 77to indicate that access control checks are not to be performed, if possible. 78This 79.Fa cred 80setting might be used to allow the kernel to authorize extended attribute 81changes that the active process might not be permitted to make. 82.Pp 83Extended attribute semantics may vary by file system implementing the call. 84More information on extended attributes may be found in 85.Xr extattr 9 . 86.Sh LOCKS 87The vnode will be locked on entry and should remain locked on return. 88.Sh RETURN VALUES 89If the extended attribute is successfully set, then zero is returned. 90Otherwise, an appropriate error code is returned. 91.Sh ERRORS 92.Bl -tag -width Er 93.It Bq Er EACCES 94The the caller does not have the appropriate privilege. 95.It Bq Er ENXIO 96The request was not valid in this file system for the specified vnode and 97attribute name. 98.It Bq Er ENOMEM 99Insufficient memory available to fulfill request 100.It Bq Er EFAULT 101The uio structure refers to an invalid userspace address. 102.It Bq Er EINVAL 103The name, namespace, or uio argument is invalid. 104.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP 105The file system does not support 106.Fn VOP_SETEXTATTR . 107.It Bq Er ENOSPC 108The file system is out of space. 109.It Bq Er EROFS 110The file system is read-only. 111.El 112.Sh SEE ALSO 113.Xr extattr 9 , 114.Xr vnode 9 , 115.Xr VOP_GETEXTATTR 9 , 116.Xr VOP_LISTEXTATTR 9 117.Sh AUTHORS 118This man page was written by 119.An Robert Watson . 120