Extended Attribute support, from FreeBSD/TrustedBSD. ok art@ deraadt@

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+.\"	$OpenBSD: extattr.3,v 1.1 2002/02/22 21:06:00 drahn Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>
+.\" All rights reserved.
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+.\" $FreeBSD: extattr.3,v 1.3 2001/10/01 16:09:18 ru Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd June 24, 2001
+.Dt EXTATTR 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm extattr_namespace_to_string ,
+.Nm extattr_string_to_namespace
+.Nd convert an extended attribute namespace identifier to a string and
+vice versa
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/extattr.h
+.In libutil.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn extattr_namespace_to_string "int attrnamespace" "char **string"
+.Ft int
+.Fn extattr_string_to_namespace "const char *string" "int *attrnamespace"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn extattr_namespace_to_string
+function converts a VFS extended attribute identifier to a human-readable
+string;
+the
+.Fn extattr_string_to_namespace
+function undoes the aforementioned operation,
+and converts a human-readable string representing a namespace to a
+namespace identifier.
+Although a filesystem may implement arbitrary namespaces,
+these functions only support the
+.Dv EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_USER
+.Pq Dq user
+and
+.Dv EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM
+.Pq Dq system
+namespaces,
+which are defined in
+.Xr extattr 9 .
+.Pp
+These functions are meant to be used in error reporting and other
+interactive tasks.
+For example,
+instead of printing the integer identifying an extended attribute in
+an error message,
+a program might use
+.Fn extattr_namespace_to_string
+to obtain a human-readable representation.
+Likewise,
+instead of requiring a user to enter the integer representing a namespace,
+an interactive program might ask for a name and use
+.Fn extattr_string_to_namespace
+to get the desired identifier.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If any of the calls are unsuccessful, the value \-1 is returned
+and the global variable
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The requested namespace could not be identified.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr extattr 2 ,
+.Xr getextattr 8 ,
+.Xr setextattr 8 ,
+.Xr extattr 9
+.Sh HISTORY
+Extended attribute support was developed as part of the
+.Tn TrustedBSD
+Project.
+It was developed to support security extensions requiring additional labels
+to be associated with each file or directory.