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the buffer you pass it
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Package: libattr1-dev
Version: 1:2.4.39-1
Severity: minor
I really had to read listxattr(2) from top to bottom before it became
evident that the _list_ argument to the functions is a pre-allocated
buffer and _size_ is its size. A simple note to this effect in the
second paragraph of the DESCRIPTION section would suffice, for example
adding to the end of the paragraph:
"_list_ is a caller-allocated buffer of size _size_."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (601, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libattr1-dev depends on:
ii libattr1 1:2.4.39-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Development Librari
libattr1-dev recommends no packages.
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Hi!
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:51:28 +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Package: libattr1-dev
> Version: 1:2.4.39-1
> Severity: minor
>
> I really had to read listxattr(2) from top to bottom before it became
> evident that the _list_ argument to the functions is a pre-allocated
> buffer and _size_ is its size. A simple note to this effect in the
> second paragraph of the DESCRIPTION section would suffice, for example
> adding to the end of the paragraph:
>
> "_list_ is a caller-allocated buffer of size _size_."
This got fixed upstream, then the man pages got moved into the
manpages-dev project. Thus closing now.
Thanks,
Guillem
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