Lclearxattrs is a wrapper around Llistxattr and Lremovexattr, which attempts to remove all xattrs from a given file.

Lgetxattr is a wrapper around unix.Lgetattr, to abstract the resizing of the returned []string.

Llistxattr is a wrapper around unix.Llistattr, to abstract the NUL-splitting and resizing of the returned []string.

Lutimes is a wrapper around utimensat(2), with the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag set, to allow changing the time of a symlink rather than the file it points to.

Mknod creates a filesystem node (file, device special file or named pipe) named path with attributes specified by mode and dev.

Tarmode takes a Typeflag (from a tar.Header for example) and returns the corresponding os.Filemode bit.