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diff --git a/man/getxattr.2 b/man/getxattr.2
index d7a287e..c64ba5d 100644
--- a/man/getxattr.2
+++ b/man/getxattr.2
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ The filesystem probably doesn't support xattrs,
 and it wasn't written very well.
 Sorry.
 .El
-.\" .Sh SEE ALSO
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getxattr 2 .
 .Sh NOTES
 The maximum size of the xattr value might become limited in the future,
 as in Linux.
diff --git a/man/setxattr.2 b/man/setxattr.2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0690d35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/setxattr.2
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+.Dd August 18, 2024
+.Dt SETXATTR 2
+.Os Camellia
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm setxattr
+.Nd set file attribute
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In camellia/syscalls.h
+.Ft ssize_t
+.Fo _sys_setxattr
+.Fa "hid_t h"
+.Fa "const char *name"
+.Fa "const void *buf"
+.Fa "size_t len"
+.Fa "int flags"
+.Fc
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+sets the attribute of
+.Fa h
+named by
+.Fa name
+to the contents of
+.Fa buf .
+.Fa flags
+is reserved for future use, for now it has to be 0.
+.Pp
+For more details see
+.Xr getxattr 2 .
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Nm
+returns
+.Fa len
+or a negative value on failure.
+The most common errors are:
+.Bl -tag -width EGENERIC
+.It Er ENOSYS
+The filesystem doesn't support xattrs.
+.It Er EGENERIC
+The filesystem probably doesn't support xattrs,
+and it wasn't written very well.
+Sorry.
+.It Er EACCES
+You lack the permission to write this xattr.
+.El
+.Pp
+In theory filesystems can return a nonnegative value different from
+.Fa len ,
+but that shouldn't ever happen.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getxattr 2
+.Sh BUGS
+There's no way to delete attributes right now.
+This will probably be done with some sort of
+.Dv XATTR_DELETE
+flag.
+.Sh RATIONALE
+See
+.Xr getxattr 2 .