On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Conrad E. Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: cem > Date: Wed Jan 18 17:55:49 2017 > New Revision: 312391 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/312391 > > Log: > ufs/extattr.h: Fix documentation of ea_name termination > > The ea_name string is not nul-terminated. Correct the documentation. > > Because the subsequent field is padded to 8 bytes, and the padding is > zeroed, the ea_name string will appear to be nul-terminated whenever the > length isn't exactly one (mod eight). > > This was introduced in r167010 (2007). > > Additionally, mark the length fields as unsigned. This particularly > matters for the single byte ea_namelength field, which can represent > extended attribute names up to 255 bytes long. > > No functional change.
Whoops — very minor functional change — restore(8) can now handle some dumps with extended attribute names longer than 127 characters that it couldn't before, due to the unsigned type change called out above. Best, Conrad _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
