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add examples to setfattr.1 and make attr.1 man page generic

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      Description of problem:
      Please backport the patch with the following commit in attr.

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      commit 1c14b97fba52560ee4812b73288b3d6ca672f9a5
      Author: Achilles Gaikwad <agaikwad@redhat.com>
      Date: Thu Feb 6 10:09:38 2020 +0530

      man: add examples to setfattr.1

      The current man page for setfattr does not state that the user needs to
      add the prefix "user." With the help of examples we demonstrate that the
      user needs to add a namespace as prefix.

      Signed-off-by: Achilles Gaikwad <agaikwad@redhat.com>
      ~~~
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      Actual results:

      no examples section

      Expected results:

      example section in man page.

      ~~~
      EXAMPLES
      Add extended attribute to user namespace:

      $ setfattr -n user.foo -v bar file.txt

      To add md5sum of the file as an extended attribute:

      1. setfattr -n trusted.md5sum -v d41d8cd98f00b204e00998ecf8427e file.txt
        ~~~

      Additional info:

      https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/acl-devel/2020-02/msg00000.html

              rh-ee-lzaoral Lukáš Zaoral
              rhn-support-agaikwad Achilles Gaikwad (Inactive)
              Lukáš Zaoral Lukáš Zaoral
              qe-baseos-daemons qe-baseos-daemons
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