Re: fopen extended attributes

[Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen suse de>]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 02:49, Jack Bates wrote:
> Are ext3 file system extended attributes mapped anywhere to file system
> paths? e.g. /sys/fs/ext3/<path>/<attr-name>?

No, they're not.

> I want to edit a file's extended attribute using standard system calls,
> fopen, fread, fwrite, etc. Is it possible?

Sorry no. You can only access them using the *xattr syscalls.

Andreas