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diff --git a/bsd/man/man2/setxattr.2 b/bsd/man/man2/setxattr.2
index 957c5bd77073588f1937d027d7accf7226ad38fa..3d5f3c5e6408c4f5e521617edae20fb100e8de87 100644 (file)
--- a/bsd/man/man2/setxattr.2
+++ b/bsd/man/man2/setxattr.2
@@ -91,13 +91,26 @@ is identical to
 except that it sets an extended attribute on an open file referenced by
 file descriptor
 .Fa fd .
-.Sh NOTE
+.Sh NOTES
 On some filesystems, such as
 .Dv HFS+ ,
 setting the extended attribute
 .Dv com.apple.ResourceFork
 will update the modification time (``mtime'') of
 the file.
+.Pp
+Due to historical reasons, the
+.Dv XATTR_FINDERINFO_NAME
+(defined to be 
+.Dq com.apple.FinderInfo )
+extended attribute must be 32 bytes; see the
+.Dv ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO
+section in
+.Xr getattrlist 2 .
+.Pp
+The maximum supported size of extended attribute can be found out using 
+.Xr pathconf 2 
+with _PC_XATTR_SIZE_BITS option.  
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 On success, 0 is returned.  On failure, -1 is returned and the global
 variable
@@ -174,7 +187,8 @@ Not enough space left on the file system.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr getxattr 2 ,
 .Xr listxattr 2 ,
-.Xr removexattr 2
+.Xr removexattr 2 ,
+.Xr pathconf 2
 .Sh HISTORY
 .Fn setxattr
 and