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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2011-06-17 18:20:40 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2011-06-17 18:20:40 +0000
commited66c3871dd399fb0e2ed666ead31371357a0aa2 (patch)
tree0423c40a829664dc9ae9f5a7c9bbe853dc1bee19 /usr.sbin/extattrctl
parent76ad4b38c33236ae97b1088fb92bddfacdbb5fc1 (diff)
New sentence, new line. Fix some typos and an xref. Bump date.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/extattrctl')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.833
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.8 b/usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.8
index b2c58d569a8..c36bdc65cc4 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/extattrctl/extattrctl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: extattrctl.8,v 1.4 2011/06/17 14:23:52 manu Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: extattrctl.8,v 1.5 2011/06/17 18:20:40 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Robert N. M. Watson
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" Developed by the TrustedBSD Project.
.\" Support for file system extended attribute.
.\"
-.Dd July 11, 2005
+.Dd June 17, 2011
.Dt EXTATTRCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -82,16 +82,17 @@ Start extended attribute support on the file system named using
.Ar path .
The file system must be a UFS1 file system, and the
.Dv UFS_EXTATTR
-kernel option must have been enabled. If
-.Pa .attribute/user
-and
+kernel option must have been enabled.
+If
+.Pa .attribute/user
+and
.Pa .attribute/system
-exist at the filesystem root, extended attribute backed by files
-in theses directories will be automatically enabled. Note that
-extended attributes can be automatically started at mount time
-by using the
+exist at the filesystem root, extended attributes backed by files
+in these directories will be automatically enabled.
+Note that extended attributes can be automatically started at mount
+time by using the
.Cm -o extattr
-option to
+option to
.Xr mount 8 .
.It Cm stop Ar path
Stop extended attribute support on the file system named using
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ from denying attribute service.
This file should not exist before running
.Cm initattr .
.Pp
-When a user attempt to set a
+When a user attempts to set a
.Dq user
or
.Dq system
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ the kernel will attempt to automatically create it, provided
.Pa .attribute/user
or
.Pa .attribute/system
-exist and are writtable by the requesting user.
+exist and are writable by the requesting user.
.It Cm showattr Ar attrfile
Show the attribute header values in the attribute file named by
.Ar attrfile .
@@ -192,9 +193,9 @@ Disable the attribute named md5 on the root file system.
.Pp
Stop extended attributes on the root file system.
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getextattr 1 ,
.Xr extattr_get_file 2 ,
.\" .Xr ffs 7 ,
-.Xr getextattr 8 ,
.Xr extattr 9
.Sh HISTORY
Extended attribute support was developed as part of the TrustedBSD
@@ -203,9 +204,9 @@ Project, and introduced in
and
.Nx 4.0 .
It was developed to support security extensions requiring additional
-labels to be associated with each file or directory. Backing file
-autocreation was added in
-.Nx 6.0
+labels to be associated with each file or directory.
+Backing file autocreation was added in
+.Nx 6.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Robert N M Watson
.Sh BUGS