From b124a27b19ba0ebfa0a069222298b28ea0b62077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:20:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] attr.7: Add CONFORMING TO section Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/attr.7 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/attr.7 b/man7/attr.7 index 211e5afbe..360c7cef2 100644 --- a/man7/attr.7 +++ b/man7/attr.7 @@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ attribute information on disk are scalable. .PP In the JFS filesystem implementation, names can be up to 255 bytes and values up to 65,535 bytes. +.SH CONFORMING TO +Extended attributes are not specified in POSIX.1, but some other systems +(e.g., the BSDs and Solaris) provide a similar feature. .SS NOTES Since the filesystems on which extended attributes are stored might also be used on architectures with a different byte order and machine word