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-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/VOP_LISTEXTATTR.912
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/VOP_LISTEXTATTR.9 b/share/man/man9/VOP_LISTEXTATTR.9
index 8c4a6522c606..4c8b744efcfa 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/VOP_LISTEXTATTR.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/VOP_LISTEXTATTR.9
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 5, 2003
+.Dd August 19, 2005
.Os
.Dt VOP_LISTEXTATTR 9
.Sh NAME
@@ -62,14 +62,16 @@ Integer constant indicating which extended attribute namespace the attribute
name is present in.
.It Fa uio
The location of the data to be read.
+The resulting data will be a list of attribute names.
+Each list entry consists of a single byte containing the length of
+the attribute name, followed by the attribute name.
+The attribute name is not terminated by
+.Tn ASCII
+.Dv NUL .
.It Fa size
If not
.Dv NULL ,
on return it will contain the number of bytes required to read the list.
-The resulting data will be an
-.Tn ASCII
-.Dv NUL Ns
--separated list of strings.
In most cases
.Fa uio
will be