linux-ext4 - [man-pages RFC PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR

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Date:   Thu,  7 Nov 2019 14:02:48 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     darrick.wong@...cle.com, dhowells@...hat.com, jaegeuk@...nel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        tytso@....edu, victorhsieh@...gle.com
Subject: [man-pages RFC PATCH] statx.2: document STATX_ATTR_VERITY

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Document the verity attribute for statx().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 man2/statx.2 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

RFC since the kernel patches are currently under review.
The kernel patches can be found here:
https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-fscrypt/20191029204141.145309-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u

diff --git a/man2/statx.2 b/man2/statx.2
index d2f1b07b8..713bd1260 100644
--- a/man2/statx.2
+++ b/man2/statx.2
@@ -461,6 +461,10 @@ See
 .TP
 .B STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED
 A key is required for the file to be encrypted by the filesystem.
+.TP
+.B STATX_ATTR_VERITY
+The file has fs-verity enabled.  It cannot be written to, and all reads from it
+will be verified against a Merkle tree.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
-- 
2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog