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As of 2016, they are not yet in widespread use by user-space Linux programs, but are used by [[Beagle (software)|Beagle]], [[OpenStack#Object storage (Swift)|OpenStack Swift]], [[Dropbox (service)|Dropbox]], [[KDE]]'s semantic metadata framework (Baloo), [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]], [[Wget]], [[cURL]], and [[Snap_(software)#Snapcraft|Snapcraft]].

The Linux kernel allows extended attributeattributes to have names of up to 255 bytes and values of up to 64 KiB,<ref>{{cite web

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