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GETATTRLIST(2)              BSD System Calls Manual             GETATTRLIST(2)

NAME
     getattrlist -- get file system attributes

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/attr.h>
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     getattrlist(const char* path, struct attrlist * attrList, void * attrBuf,
         size_t attrBufSize, unsigned long options);

DESCRIPTION
     The getattrlist() function returns attributes (that is, metadata) of file
     system objects.  You can think of getattrlist() as a seriously enhanced
     version of stat(2).  The function returns attributes about the file sys-tem system
     tem object specified by path in the buffer specified by attrBuf and
     attrBufSize.  The attrList parameter determines what attributes are
     returned.  The options parameter lets you control specific aspects of the
     function's behavior.

     The getattrlist() function is only supported by certain volume format
     implementations.  For maximum compatibility, client programs should use
     high-level APIs (such as the Carbon File Manager) to access file system
     attributes.  These high-level APIs include logic to emulate file system
     attributes on volumes that don't support getattrlist().

     Not all volumes support all attributes.  See the discussion of
     ATTR_VOL_ATTRIBUTES for a discussion of how to determine whether a par-ticular particular
     ticular volume supports a particular attribute.

     Furthermore, you should only request the attributes that you need.  Some
     attributes are expensive to calculate on some volume formats.  For exam-ple, example,
     ple, ATTR_DIR_ENTRYCOUNT is usually expensive to calculate on non-HFS
     [Plus] volumes.  If you don't need a particular attribute, you should not
     ask for it.

     The path parameter must reference a valid file system object.  Read,
     write or execute permission of the object itself is not required, but all
     directories listed in the path name leading to the object must be search-able. searchable.
     able.

     The attrList parameter is a pointer to an attrlist structure, as defined
     by <sys/attr.h> (shown below).  It determines what attributes are
     returned by the function.  You are responsible for filling out all fields
     of this structure before calling the function.

     typedef u_int32_t attrgroup_t;

     struct attrlist {
         u_short     bitmapcount; /* number of attr. bit sets in list */
         u_int16_t   reserved;    /* (to maintain 4-byte alignment) */
         attrgroup_t commonattr;  /* common attribute group */
         attrgroup_t volattr;     /* volume attribute group */
         attrgroup_t dirattr;     /* directory attribute group */
         attrgroup_t fileattr;    /* file attribute group */
         attrgroup_t forkattr;    /* fork attribute group */
     };
     #define ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT 5

     The fields of the attrlist structure are defined as follows.

     bitmapcount     Number of attribute bit sets in the structure.  In cur-rent current
                     rent systems you must set this to ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT.

     reserved        Reserved.  You must set this to 0.

     commonattr      A bit set that specifies the common attributes that you
                     require.  Common attributes relate to all types of file
                     system objects.  See below for a description of these
                     attributes.

     volattr         A bit set that specifies the volume attributes that you
                     require.  Volume attributes relate to volumes (that is,
                     mounted file systems).  See below for a description of
                     these attributes.  If you request volume attributes, path
                     must reference the root of a volume.  In addition, you
                     can't request volume attributes if you also request file
                     or directory attributes.

     dirattr         A bit set that specifies the directory attributes that
                     you require.  See below for a description of these
                     attributes.

     fileattr        A bit set that specifies the file attributes that you
                     require.  See below for a description of these
                     attributes.

     forkattr        A bit set that specifies the fork attributes that you
                     require.  Fork attributes relate to the actual data in
                     the file, which can be held in multiple named contiguous
                     ranges, or forks.  See below for a description of these
                     attributes.

     Unless otherwise noted in the lists below, attributes are read-only.
     Attributes labelled as read/write can be set using setattrlist(2).

     The attrBuf and attrBufSize parameters specify a buffer into which the
     function places attribute values.  The format of this buffer is suffi-ciently sufficiently
     ciently complex that its description requires a separate section (see
     below).  The initial contents of this buffer are ignored.

     The options parameter is a bit set that controls the behaviour of
     getattrlist().  The following option bits are defined.

     FSOPT_NOFOLLOW  If this bit is set, getattrlist() will not follow a sym-link symlink
                     link if it occurs as the last component of path.

ATTRIBUTE BUFFER
     The data returned in the buffer described by attrBuf and attrBufSize is
     formatted as follows.

     1.   The first element of the buffer is a u_int32_t that contains the
          overall length, in bytes, of the attributes returned.  This size
          includes the length field itself.

     2.   Following the length field is a list of attributes.  Each attribute
          is represented by a field of its type, where the type is given as
          part of the attribute description (below).

     3.   The attributes are placed into the attribute buffer in the order
          that they are described below.

     If the attribute is of variable length, it is represented in the list by
     an attrreference structure, as defined by <sys/attr.h> (shown below).

     typedef struct attrreference {
         long        attr_dataoffset;
         size_t      attr_length;
     } attrreference_t;

     This structure contains a 'pointer' to the variable length attribute
     data.  The attr_length field is the length of the attribute data (in
     bytes).  The attr_dataoffset field is the offset in bytes from the
     attrreference structure to the attribute data.  This offset will always
     be a multiple of sizeof(unsigned long) bytes, so you can safely access
     common data types without fear of alignment exceptions.

     The getattrlist() function will silently truncate attribute data if
     attrBufSize is too small.  The length field at the front of the attribute
     list always represents the length of the data actually copied into the
     attribute buffer.  If the data is truncated, there is no easy way to
     determine the buffer size that's required to get all of the requested
     attributes.  You should always pass an attrBufSize that is large enough
     to accommodate the known size of the attributes in the attribute list
     (including the leading length field).

     Because the returned attributes are simply truncated if the buffer is too
     small, it's possible for a variable length attribute to reference data
     beyond the end of the attribute buffer.  That is, it's possible for the
     attribute data to start beyond the end of the attribute buffer (that is,
     if attrRef is a pointer to the attrreference_t, ( ( (char *) attrRef ) +
     attr_dataoffset ) > ( ( (char *) attrBuf ) + attrSize ) ) or, indeed, for
     the attribute data to extend beyond the end of the attribute buffer (that
     is, ( ( (char *) attrRef ) + attr_dataoffset + attr_datalength ) > ( (
     (char *) attrBuf ) + attrSize ) ).  If this happens you must increase the
     size of the buffer and call getattrlist() to get an accurate copy of the
     attribute.

COMMON ATTRIBUTES
     Common attributes relate to all types of file system objects.  The fol-lowing following
     lowing common attributes are defined.

     ATTR_CMN_NAME             An attrreference structure containing the name
                               of the file system object as UTF-8 encoded,
                               null terminated C string.  The attribute data
                               length will not be greater than NAME_MAX + 1.

     ATTR_CMN_DEVID            A dev_t containing the device number of the
                               device on which this file system object's vol-ume volume
                               ume is mounted.  Equivalent to the st_dev field
                               of the stat structure returned by stat(2).

     ATTR_CMN_FSID             An fsid_t structure containing the file system
                               identifier for the volume on which the file
                               system object resides.  Equivalent to the
                               f_fsid field of the statfs structure returned
                               by statfs(2).

                               This value is not related to the file system ID
                               from traditional Mac OS (for example, the
                               filesystemID field of the FSVolumeInfo struc-ture structure
                               ture returned by Carbon's FSGetVolumeInfo()
                               function).  On current versions of Mac OS X
                               that value is synthesised by the Carbon File
                               Manager.

     ATTR_CMN_OBJTYPE          An fsobj_type_t that identifies the type of
                               file system object.  The values are taken from
                               enum vtype in <sys/vnode.h>.

     ATTR_CMN_OBJTAG           An fsobj_tag_t that identifies the type of file
                               system containing the object.  The values are
                               taken from enum vtagtype in <sys/vnode.h>.

     ATTR_CMN_OBJID            An fsobj_id_t structure that uniquely identi-fies identifies
                               fies the file system object within its volume.
                               The fid_generation field of this structure will
                               be zero for all non-root callers (effective UID
                               not 0).  This identifier need not be persistent
                               across an unmount/mount sequence.

                               Some volume formats use well known values for
                               the fid_objno field for the root directory (2)
                               and the parent of root directory (1).  This is
                               not a required behaviour of this attribute.

     ATTR_CMN_OBJPERMANENTID   An fsobj_id_t structure that uniquely identi-fies identifies
                               fies the file system object within its volume.
                               The fid_generation field of this structure will
                               be zero for all non-root callers (effective UID
                               not 0).  This identifier should be persistent
                               across an unmount/mount sequence.

                               Some file systems (for example, original HFS)
                               may need to modify the on-disk structure to
                               return a persistent identifier.  If such a file
                               system is mounted read-only, an attempt to get
                               this attribute will fail with the error EROFS.

     ATTR_CMN_PAROBJID         An fsobj_id_t structure that identifies the
                               parent directory of the file system object.
                               The fid_generation field of this structure will
                               be zero for all non-root callers (effective UID
                               not 0).  Equivalent to the ATTR_CMN_OBJID
                               attribute of the parent directory.  This iden-tifier identifier
                               tifier need not be persistent across an
                               unmount/mount sequence.

                               On a volume that supports hard links, a multi-ply multiply
                               ply linked file has no unique parent.  This
                               attribute will return an unspecified parent.

                               For some volume formats this attribute is very
                               expensive to calculate.

     ATTR_CMN_SCRIPT           (read/write) A text_encoding_t containing a
                               text encoding hint for the file system object's
                               name.  It is included to facilitate the loss-less lossless
                               less round trip conversion of names between
                               Unicode and traditional Mac OS script encod-ings. encodings.
                               ings.  The values are defined in
                               <CarbonCore/TextCommon.h>.  File systems that
                               do not have an appropriate text encoding value
                               should return kTextEncodingMacUnicode.  See DTS
                               Q&A 1173 "File Manager Text Encoding Hints".

     ATTR_CMN_CRTIME           (read/write) A timespec structure containing
                               the time that the file system object was cre-ated. created.
                               ated.

     ATTR_CMN_MODTIME          (read/write) A timespec structure containing
                               the time that the file system object was last
                               modified.  Equivalent to the st_mtimespec field
                               of the stat structure returned by stat(2).

     ATTR_CMN_CHGTIME          (read/write) A timespec structure containing
                               the time that the file system object's
                               attributes were last modified.  Equivalent to
                               the st_ctimespec field of the stat structure
                               returned by stat(2).

     ATTR_CMN_ACCTIME          (read/write) A timespec structure containing
                               the time that the file system object was last
                               accessed.  Equivalent to the st_atimespec field
                               of the stat structure returned by stat(2).

     ATTR_CMN_BKUPTIME         (read/write) A timespec structure containing
                               the time that the file system object was last
                               backed up.  This value is for use by backup
                               utilities.  The file system stores but does not
                               interpret the value.

     ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO         (read/write) 32 bytes of data for use by the
                               Finder.  Equivalent to the concatenation of a
                               FileInfo structure and an ExtendedFileInfo
                               structure (or, for directories, a FolderInfo
                               structure and an ExtendedFolderInfo structure).
                               These structures are defined in
                               <CarbonCore/Finder.h>.

                               This attribute is not byte swapped by the file
                               system.  The value of multibyte fields on disk
                               is always big endian.  When running on a little
                               endian system (such as Darwin on x86), you must
                               byte swap any multibyte fields.

     ATTR_CMN_OWNERID          (read/write) A uid_t containing the owner of
                               the file system object.  Equivalent to the
                               st_uid field of the stat structure returned by
                               stat(2).

     ATTR_CMN_GRPID            (read/write) A gid_t containing the group of
                               the file system object.  Equivalent to the
                               st_gid field of the stat structure returned by
                               stat(2).

     ATTR_CMN_ACCESSMASK       (read/write) A u_int32_t containing the access
                               permissions of the file system object.  Equiva-lent Equivalent
                               lent to the st_mode field of the stat structure
                               returned by stat(2).

     ATTR_CMN_NAMEDATTRCOUNT   A u_int32_t containing the number of named
                               attributes of the file system object.

     ATTR_CMN_NAMEDATTRLIST    An attrreference structure containing a list of
                               named attributes of the file system object.  No
                               built-in file systems on Mac OS X currently
                               support named attributes.  Because of this, the
                               structure of this attribute's value is not yet
                               defined.

     ATTR_CMN_FLAGS            (read/write) A u_int32_t containing file flags.
                               Equivalent to the st_flags field of the stat
                               structure returned by stat(2).  For more infor-mation information
                               mation about these flags, see chflags(2).

                               The order that attributes are placed into the
                               attribute buffer almost invariably matches the
                               order of the attribute mask bit values.  The
                               exception is ATTR_CMN_FLAGS.  If its order was
                               based on its bit position, it would be before
                               the ATTR_CMN_NAMEDATTRCOUNT /
                               ATTR_CMN_NAMEDATTRLIST pair, however, it is
                               placed in the buffer after them.

     ATTR_CMN_USERACCESS       A u_int32_t containing the effective permis-sions permissions
                               sions of the current user (the calling
                               process's effective UID) for this file system
                               object.  You can test for read, write, and exe-cute execute
                               cute permission using R_OK, W_OK, and X_OK,
                               respectively.  See access(2) for more details.

     ATTR_CMN_FILEID           A u_int64_t that uniquely identifies the file
                               system object within its volume.

     ATTR_CMN_PARENTID         A u_int64_t that identifies the parent direc-tory directory
                               tory of the file system object.

VOLUME ATTRIBUTES
     Volume attributes relate to volumes (that is, mounted file systems).  The
     following volume attributes are defined.

     ATTR_VOL_INFO             For reasons that are not at all obvious, you
                               must set ATTR_VOL_INFO in the volattr field if
                               you request any other volume attributes.  This
                               does not result in any attribute data being
                               added to the attribute buffer.

     ATTR_VOL_FSTYPE           A u_int32_t containing the file system type.
                               Equivalent to the f_type field of the statfs
                               structure returned by statfs(2).  Generally not
                               a useful value.

     ATTR_VOL_SIGNATURE        A u_int32_t containing the volume signature
                               word.  This value is unique within a given file
                               system type and lets you distinguish between
                               different volume formats handled by the same
                               file system.  See <CarbonCore/Files.h> for more
                               details.

     ATTR_VOL_SIZE             An off_t containing the total size of the vol-ume volume
                               ume in bytes.

     ATTR_VOL_SPACEFREE        An off_t containing the free space on the vol-ume volume
                               ume in bytes.

     ATTR_VOL_SPACEAVAIL       An off_t containing the space, in bytes, on the
                               volume available to non-privileged processes.
                               This is the free space minus the amount of
                               space reserved by the system to prevent criti-cal critical
                               cal disk exhaustion errors.  Non-privileged
                               programs, like a disk management tool, should
                               use this value to display the space available
                               to the user.

                               ATTR_VOL_SPACEAVAIL is to ATTR_VOL_SPACEFREE as
                               f_bavail is to f_bfree in statfs(2).

     ATTR_VOL_MINALLOCATION    An off_t containing the minimum allocation size
                               on the volume in bytes.  If you create a file
                               containing one byte, it will consume this much
                               space.

     ATTR_VOL_ALLOCATIONCLUMP  An off_t containing the allocation clump size
                               on the volume, in bytes.  As a file is
                               extended, the file system will attempt to allo-cate allocate
                               cate this much space each time in order to
                               reduce fragmentation.

     ATTR_VOL_IOBLOCKSIZE      A u_int32_t containing the optimal block size
                               when reading or writing data.  Equivalent to
                               the f_iosize field of the statfs structure
                               returned by statfs(2).

     ATTR_VOL_OBJCOUNT         A u_int32_t containing the number of file sys-tem system
                               tem objects on the volume.

     ATTR_VOL_FILECOUNT        A u_int32_t containing the number of files on
                               the volume.

     ATTR_VOL_DIRCOUNT         A u_int32_t containing the number of directo-ries directories
                               ries on the volume.

     ATTR_VOL_MAXOBJCOUNT      A u_int32_t containing the maximum number of
                               file system objects that can be stored on the
                               volume.

     ATTR_VOL_MOUNTPOINT       An attrreference structure containing the path
                               to the volume's mount point as a UTF-8 encoded,
                               null terminated C string.  The attribute data
                               length will not be greater than MAXPATHLEN.
                               Equivalent to the f_mntonname field of the
                               statfs structure returned by statfs(2).

     ATTR_VOL_NAME             (read/write) An attrreference structure con-taining containing
                               taining the name of the volume as a UTF-8
                               encoded, null terminated C string.  The
                               attribute data length will not be greater than
                               NAME_MAX + 1.

                               This attribute is only read/write if the
                               VOL_CAP_INT_VOL_RENAME bit is set in the volume
                               capabilities (see below).

     ATTR_VOL_MOUNTFLAGS       A u_int32_t containing the volume mount flags.
                               This is a copy of the value passed to the flags
                               parameter of mount(2) when the volume was
                               mounted.  Equivalent to the f_flags field of
                               the statfs structure returned by statfs(2).

     ATTR_VOL_MOUNTEDDEVICE    An attrreference structure that returns the
                               same value as the f_mntfromname field of the
                               statfs structure returned by statfs(2).  For
                               local volumes this is the path to the device on
                               which the volume is mounted as a UTF-8 encoded,
                               null terminated C string.  For network volumes,
                               this is a unique string that identifies the
                               mount.  The attribute data length will not be
                               greater than MAXPATHLEN.

     ATTR_VOL_ENCODINGSUSED    An unsigned long long containing a bitmap of
                               the text encodings used on this volume.  For
                               more information about this, see the discussion
                               of encodingsBitmap in DTS Technote 1150 "HFS
                               Plus Volume Format".

     ATTR_VOL_CAPABILITIES     A vol_capabilities_attr_t structure describing
                               the optional features supported by this volume.
                               See below for a discussion of volume capabili-ties. capabilities.
                               ties.

     ATTR_VOL_ATTRIBUTES       A vol_attributes_attr_t structure describing
                               the attributes supported by this volume.  This
                               structure is discussed below, along with volume
                               capabilities.

DIRECTORY ATTRIBUTES
     The following directory attributes are defined.

     ATTR_DIR_LINKCOUNT        A u_int32_t containing the number of hard links
                               to the directory; this does not include the
                               historical "." and ".." entries.  For filesys-tems filesystems
                               tems that do not support hard links to directo-ries, directories,
                               ries, this value will be 1.

     ATTR_DIR_ENTRYCOUNT       A u_int32_t containing the number of file sys-tem system
                               tem objects in the directory, not including any
                               synthetic items.

     ATTR_DIR_MOUNTSTATUS      A u_int32_t containing flags describing what's
                               mounted on the directory.  Currently the only
                               flag defined is DIR_MNTSTATUS_MNTPOINT, which
                               indicates that there is a file system mounted
                               on this directory.  Due to a bug (r. 3502822),
                               this flag is never set on current system.

FILE ATTRIBUTES
     The following file attributes are defined.

     ATTR_FILE_LINKCOUNT       A u_int32_t containing the number of hard links
                               to this file.  Equivalent to the st_nlink field
                               of the stat structure returned by stat(2).

     ATTR_FILE_TOTALSIZE       An off_t containing the total number of bytes
                               in all forks of the file (the logical size).

     ATTR_FILE_ALLOCSIZE       An off_t containing a count of the bytes on
                               disk used by all of the file's forks (the phys-ical physical
                               ical size).

     ATTR_FILE_IOBLOCKSIZE     A u_int32_t containing the optimal block size
                               when reading or writing this file's data.

     ATTR_FILE_CLUMPSIZE       A u_int32_t containing the allocation clump
                               size for this file, in bytes.  As the file is
                               extended, the file system will attempt to allo-cate allocate
                               cate this much space each time in order to
                               reduce fragmentation.  This value applies to
                               the data fork.

     ATTR_FILE_DEVTYPE         (read/write) A u_int32_t containing the device
                               type for a special device file.  Equivalent to
                               the st_rdev field of the stat structure
                               returned by stat(2).

     ATTR_FILE_FILETYPE        A u_int32_t that whose value is reserved.
                               Clients should ignore its value.  New volume
                               format implementations should not support this
                               attribute.

     ATTR_FILE_FORKCOUNT       A u_int32_t containing the number of forks in
                               the file.  No built-in file systems on Mac OS X
                               currently support forks other than the data and
                               resource fork.

     ATTR_FILE_FORKLIST        An attrreference structure containing a list of
                               named forks of the file.  No built-in file sys-tems systems
                               tems on Mac OS X currently support forks other
                               than the data and resource fork.  Because of
                               this, the structure of this attribute's value
                               is not yet defined.

     ATTR_FILE_DATALENGTH      An off_t containing the length of the data fork
                               in bytes (the logical size).

     ATTR_FILE_DATAALLOCSIZE   An off_t containing a count of the bytes on
                               disk used by the data fork (the physical size).

     ATTR_FILE_DATAEXTENTS     An extentrecord array for the data fork.  The
                               array contains eight diskextent structures
                               which represent the first eight extents of the
                               fork.

                               This attributes exists for compatibility rea-sons. reasons.
                               sons.  New clients should not use this
                               attribute.  Rather, they should use the
                               F_LOG2PHYS command in fcntl(2).

                               In current implementations the value may not be
                               entirely accurate for a variety of reasons.

     ATTR_FILE_RSRCLENGTH      An off_t containing the length of the resource
                               fork in bytes (the logical size).

     ATTR_FILE_RSRCALLOCSIZE   An off_t containing a count of the bytes on
                               disk used by the resource fork (the physical
                               size).

     ATTR_FILE_RSRCEXTENTS     An extentrecord array for the resource fork.
                               The array contains eight diskextent structures
                               which represent the first eight extents of the
                               fork.

                               See also ATTR_FILE_DATAEXTENTS.

FORK ATTRIBUTES
     Fork attributes relate to the actual data in the file, which can be held
     in multiple named contiguous ranges, or forks.  The following fork
     attributes are defined.

     ATTR_FORK_TOTALSIZE       An off_t containing the length of the fork in
                               bytes (the logical size).

     ATTR_FORK_ALLOCSIZE       An off_t containing a count of the bytes on
                               disk used by the fork (the physical size).

     Fork attributes are not properly implemented by any current Mac OS X vol-ume volume
     ume format implementation.  We strongly recommend that client programs do
     not request fork attributes.  If you are implementing a volume format,
     you should not support these attributes.

VOLUME CAPABILITIES
     Not all volumes support all features.  The ATTR_VOL_CAPABILITIES
     attribute returns a vol_capabilities_attr_t structure (shown below) that
     indicates which features are supported by the volume.

     typedef u_int32_t vol_capabilities_set_t[4];

     #define VOL_CAPABILITIES_FORMAT     0
     #define VOL_CAPABILITIES_INTERFACES 1
     #define VOL_CAPABILITIES_RESERVED1  2
     #define VOL_CAPABILITIES_RESERVED2  3

     typedef struct vol_capabilities_attr {
         vol_capabilities_set_t capabilities;
         vol_capabilities_set_t valid;
     } vol_capabilities_attr_t;

     The structure contains two fields, capabilities and valid.  Each consists
     of an array of four elements.  The arrays are indexed by the following
     values.

     VOL_CAPABILITIES_FORMAT          This element contains information about
                                      the volume format.  See
                                      VOL_CAP_FMT_PERSISTENTOBJECTIDS and so
                                      on, below.

     VOL_CAPABILITIES_INTERFACES      This element contains information about
                                      which optional functions are supported
                                      by the volume format implementation.
                                      See VOL_CAP_INT_SEARCHFS and so on,
                                      below.

     VOL_CAPABILITIES_RESERVED1       Reserved.  A file system implementation
                                      should set this element to zero.  A
                                      client program should ignore this ele-ment. element.
                                      ment.

     VOL_CAPABILITIES_RESERVED2       Reserved.  A file system implementation
                                      should set this element to zero.  A
                                      client program should ignore this ele-ment. element.
                                      ment.

     The valid field contains bit sets that indicate which flags are known to
     the volume format implementation.  Each bit indicates whether the con-tents contents
     tents of the corresponding bit in the capabilities field is valid.

     The capabilities field contains bit sets that indicate whether a particu-lar particular
     lar feature is implemented by this volume format.

     The following bits are defined in the first element (indexed by
     VOL_CAPABILITIES_FORMAT) of the capabilities and valid fields of the
     vol_capabilities_attr_t structure.

     VOL_CAP_FMT_PERSISTENTOBJECTIDS  If this bit is set the volume format
                                      supports persistent object identifiers
                                      and can look up file system objects by
                                      their IDs.  See ATTR_CMN_OBJPERMANENTID
                                      for details about how to obtain these
                                      identifiers.

     VOL_CAP_FMT_SYMBOLICLINKS        If this bit is set the volume format
                                      supports symbolic links.

     VOL_CAP_FMT_HARDLINKS            If this bit is set the volume format
                                      supports hard links.

     VOL_CAP_FMT_JOURNAL              If this bit is set the volume format
                                      supports a journal used to speed recov-ery recovery
                                      ery in case of unplanned restart (such
                                      as a power outage or crash).  This does
                                      not necessarily mean the volume is
                                      actively using a journal.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_JOURNAL_ACTIVE       If this bit is set the volume is cur-rently currently
                                      rently using a journal for speedy recov-ery recovery
                                      ery after an unplanned restart.  This
                                      bit can be set only if
                                      VOL_CAP_FMT_JOURNAL is also set.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_NO_ROOT_TIMES        If this bit is set the volume format
                                      does not store reliable times for the
                                      root directory, so you should not depend
                                      on them to detect changes, identify vol-umes volumes
                                      umes across unmount/mount, and so on.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_SPARSE_FILES         If this bit is set the volume format
                                      supports sparse files, that is, files
                                      which can have 'holes' that have never
                                      been written to, and thus do not consume
                                      space on disk.  A sparse file may have
                                      an allocated size on disk that is less
                                      than its logical length (that is,
                                      ATTR_FILE_ALLOCSIZE <
                                      ATTR_FILE_TOTALSIZE ).

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_ZERO_RUNS            For security reasons, parts of a file
                                      (runs) that have never been written to
                                      must appear to contain zeroes.  When
                                      this bit is set, the volume keeps track
                                      of allocated but unwritten runs of a
                                      file so that it can substitute zeroes
                                      without actually writing zeroes to the
                                      media.  This provides performance simi-
                                      lar to sparse files, but not the space
                                      savings.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_CASE_SENSITIVE       If this bit is set the volume format
                                      treats upper and lower case characters
                                      in file and directory names as differ-ent. different.
                                      ent.  Otherwise an upper case character
                                      is equivalent to a lower case character,
                                      and you can't have two names that differ
                                      solely in the case of the characters.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_CASE_PRESERVING      If this bit is set the volume format
                                      preserves the case of file and directory
                                      names.  Otherwise the volume may change
                                      the case of some characters (typically
                                      making them all upper or all lower
                                      case).  A volume that sets
                                      VOL_CAP_FMT_CASE_SENSITIVE must also set
                                      VOL_CAP_FMT_CASE_PRESERVING.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_FAST_STATFS          This bit is used as a hint to upper lay-ers layers
                                      ers (specifically the Carbon File Man-ager) Manager)
                                      ager) to indicate that statfs(2) is fast
                                      enough that its results need not be
                                      cached by the caller.  A volume format
                                      implementation that caches the statfs(2)
                                      information in memory should set this
                                      bit.  An implementation that must always
                                      read from disk or always perform a net-work network
                                      work transaction to satisfy statfs(2)
                                      should not set this bit.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_FMT_2TB_FILESIZE         If this bit is set the volume format
                                      supports file sizes upto 2TB.  This bit
                                      does not necessarily mean that the file
                                      system does not support file size more
                                      than 2TB.  This bit does not mean that
                                      the currently available space on the
                                      volume is 2TB.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 8.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.4).

     The following bits are defined in the second element (indexed by
     VOL_CAPABILITIES_INTERFACES) of the capabilities and valid fields of the
     vol_capabilities_attr_t structure.

     VOL_CAP_INT_SEARCHFS             If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports searchfs(2).

     VOL_CAP_INT_ATTRLIST             If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports getattrlist()
                                      and setattrlist(2).

     VOL_CAP_INT_NFSEXPORT            If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation allows this volume to be
                                      exported via NFS.

     VOL_CAP_INT_READDIRATTR          If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports
                                      getdirentriesattr(2).

     VOL_CAP_INT_EXCHANGEDATA         If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports exchangedata(2).

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_INT_COPYFILE             If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports the (private and
                                      undocumented) copyfile() function.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_INT_ALLOCATE             If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports the
                                      F_PREALLOCATE selector of fcntl(2).

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_INT_VOL_RENAME           If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation allows you to modify the
                                      volume name using setattrlist(2).

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_INT_ADVLOCK              If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports advisory lock-ing, locking,
                                      ing, that is, the F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and
                                      F_SETLKW selectors to fcntl(2).

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_INT_FLOCK                If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports whole file
                                      locks.  This includes flock(2) and the
                                      O_EXLOCK and O_SHLOCK flags to open(2).

                                      Introduced with Darwin 7.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.3).

     VOL_CAP_INT_EXTENDED_SECURITY    If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports extended secu-rity security
                                      rity controls (ACLs).

                                      Introduced with Darwin 8.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.4).

     VOL_CAP_INT_USERACCESS           If this bit is set the volume format
                                      implementation supports the
                                      ATTR_CMN_USERACCESS attribute.

                                      Introduced with Darwin 8.0 (Mac OS X
                                      version 10.4).

     A volume can also report which attributes it supports.  This information
     is returned by the ATTR_VOL_ATTRIBUTES attribute, which returns a
     vol_attributes_attr_t structure (shown below).

     typedef struct attribute_set {
         attrgroup_t commonattr; /* common attribute group */
         attrgroup_t volattr;    /* volume attribute group */
         attrgroup_t dirattr;    /* directory attribute group */
         attrgroup_t fileattr;   /* file attribute group */
         attrgroup_t forkattr;   /* fork attribute group */
     } attribute_set_t;

     typedef struct vol_attributes_attr {
         attribute_set_t validattr;
         attribute_set_t nativeattr;
     } vol_attributes_attr_t;

     The validattr field consists of a number of bit sets that indicate
     whether an attribute is supported by the volume format implementation.
     The nativeattr is similar except that the bit sets indicate whether an
     attribute is supported natively by the volume format.  An attribute is
     supported natively if the volume format implementation does not have to
     do any complex conversions to access the attribute.  For example, a vol-ume volume
     ume format might support persistent object identifiers, but doing so
     requires a complex table lookup that is not part of the core volume for-mat. format.
     mat.  In that case, the ATTR_VOL_ATTRIBUTES attribute would return
     ATTR_CMN_OBJPERMANENTID set in the validattr field of the
     vol_attributes_attr_t, but not in the nativeattr field.

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned.  Otherwise, a value
     of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

COMPATIBILITY
     Not all volumes support getattrlist().  The best way to test whether a
     volume supports this function is to simply call it and check the error
     result.  getattrlist() will return ENOTSUP if it is not supported on a
     particular volume.

     The getattrlist() function has been undocumented for more than two years.
     In that time a number of volume format implementations have been created
     without a proper specification for the behaviour of this routine.  You
     may encounter volume format implementations with slightly different be-haviour behaviour
     haviour than what is described here.  Your program is expected to be tol-erant tolerant
     erant of this variant behaviour.

     If you're implementing a volume format that supports getattrlist(), you
     should be careful to support the behaviour specified by this document.

ERRORS
     getattrlist() will fail if:

     [ENOTSUP]          The volume does not support getattrlist().

     [ENOTDIR]          A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]     A component of a path name exceeded NAME_MAX charac-ters, characters,
                        ters, or an entire path name exceeded PATH_MAX charac-ters. characters.
                        ters.

     [ENOENT]           The file system object does not exist.

     [EACCES]           Search permission is denied for a component of the
                        path prefix.

     [ELOOP]            Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat-ing translating
                        ing the pathname.

     [EFAULT]           path, attrList or attrBuf points to an invalid
                        address.

     [EINVAL]           The bitmapcount field of attrList is not
                        ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT.

     [EINVAL]           You requested an invalid attribute.

     [EINVAL]           You requested an attribute that is not supported for
                        this file system object.

     [EINVAL]           You requested volume attributes and directory or file
                        attributes.

     [EINVAL]           You requested volume attributes but path does not ref-erence reference
                        erence the root of the volume.

     [EROFS]            The volume is read-only but must be modified in order
                        to return this attribute.

     [EIO]              An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to
                        the file system.

CAVEATS
     If you request any volume attributes, you must set ATTR_VOL_INFO in the
     volattr field, even though it generates no result in the attribute
     buffer.

     The order that attributes are stored in the attribute buffer almost
     invariably matches the order of attribute mask bit values.  For example,
     ATTR_CMN_NAME (0x00000001) comes before ATTR_CMN_DEVID (0x00000002)
     because its value is smaller.  However, you can not rely on this ordering
     because there is one key exception: ATTR_CMN_FLAGS is placed after the
     ATTR_CMN_NAMEDATTRCOUNT / ATTR_CMN_NAMEDATTRLIST pair, even though its
     bit position indicates that it should come before.  This is due to a bug
     in an early version of Mac OS X that can't be fixed for binary compati-bility compatibility
     bility reasons.  When ordering attributes, you should always use the
     order in which they are described above.

     For more caveats, see also the compatibility notes above.

EXAMPLES
     The following code prints the file type and creator of a file, assuming
     that the volume supports the required attributes.

     #include <assert.h>
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <sys/attr.h>
     #include <sys/errno.h>
     #include <unistd.h>
     #include <sys/vnode.h>

     typedef struct attrlist attrlist_t;

     struct FInfoAttrBuf {
         u_int32_t       length;
         fsobj_type_t    objType;
         char            finderInfo[32];
     };
     typedef struct FInfoAttrBuf FInfoAttrBuf;

     static int FInfoDemo(const char *path)
     {
         int             err;
         attrlist_t      attrList;
         FInfoAttrBuf    attrBuf;

         memset(&attrList, 0, sizeof(attrList));
         attrList.bitmapcount = ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT;
         attrList.commonattr  = ATTR_CMN_OBJTYPE | ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO;

         err = getattrlist(path, &attrList, &attrBuf, sizeof(attrBuf), 0);
         if (err != 0) {
             err = errno;
         }

         if (err == 0) {
             assert(attrBuf.length == sizeof(attrBuf));

             printf("Finder information for %s:\n", path);
             switch (attrBuf.objType) {
                 case VREG:
                     printf("file type    = '%.4s'\n", &attrBuf.finderInfo[0]);
                     printf("file creator = '%.4s'\n", &attrBuf.finderInfo[4]);
                     break;
                 case VDIR:
                     printf("directory\n");
                     break;
                 default:
                     printf("other object type, %d\n", attrBuf.objType);
                     break;
             }
         }

         return err;
     }

     The following code is an alternative implementation that uses nested
     structures to group the related attributes.

     #include <assert.h>
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <stddef.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <sys/attr.h>
     #include <sys/errno.h>
     #include <unistd.h>
     #include <sys/vnode.h>

     typedef struct attrlist attrlist_t;

     struct FInfo2CommonAttrBuf {
         fsobj_type_t    objType;
         char            finderInfo[32];
     };
     typedef struct FInfo2CommonAttrBuf FInfo2CommonAttrBuf;

     struct FInfo2AttrBuf {
         u_int32_t           length;
         FInfo2CommonAttrBuf common;
     };
     typedef struct FInfo2AttrBuf FInfo2AttrBuf;

     static int FInfo2Demo(const char *path)
     {
         int             err;
         attrlist_t      attrList;
         FInfo2AttrBuf   attrBuf;

         memset(&attrList, 0, sizeof(attrList));
         attrList.bitmapcount = ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT;
         attrList.commonattr  = ATTR_CMN_OBJTYPE | ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO;

         err = getattrlist(path, &attrList, &attrBuf, sizeof(attrBuf), 0);
         if (err != 0) {
             err = errno;
         }

         if (err == 0) {
             assert(attrBuf.length == sizeof(attrBuf));

             printf("Finder information for %s:\n", path);
             switch (attrBuf.common.objType) {
                 case VREG:
                     printf(
                         "file type    = '%.4s'\n",
                         &attrBuf.common.finderInfo[0]
                     );
                     printf(
                         "file creator = '%.4s'\n",
                         &attrBuf.common.finderInfo[4]
                     );
                     break;
                 case VDIR:
                     printf("directory\n");
                     break;
                 default:
                     printf(
                         "other object type, %d\n",
                         attrBuf.common.objType
                     );
                     break;
             }
         }

         return err;
     }

     The following example shows how to deal with variable length attributes.
     It assumes that the volume specified by path supports the necessary
     attributes.

     #include <assert.h>
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <stddef.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <sys/attr.h>
     #include <sys/errno.h>
     #include <unistd.h>
     #include <sys/vnode.h>

     typedef struct attrlist attrlist_t;

     struct VolAttrBuf {
         u_int32_t       length;
         u_int32_t       fileCount;
         u_int32_t       dirCount;
         attrreference_t mountPointRef;
         attrreference_t volNameRef;
         char            mountPointSpace[MAXPATHLEN];
         char            volNameSpace[MAXPATHLEN];
     };
     typedef struct VolAttrBuf VolAttrBuf;

     static int VolDemo(const char *path)
     {
         int             err;
         attrlist_t      attrList;
         VolAttrBuf      attrBuf;

         memset(&attrList, 0, sizeof(attrList));
         attrList.bitmapcount = ATTR_BIT_MAP_COUNT;
         attrList.volattr     =   ATTR_VOL_INFO
                                | ATTR_VOL_FILECOUNT
                                | ATTR_VOL_DIRCOUNT
                                | ATTR_VOL_MOUNTPOINT
                                | ATTR_VOL_NAME;

         err = getattrlist(path, &attrList, &attrBuf, sizeof(attrBuf), 0);
         if (err != 0) {
             err = errno;
         }

         if (err == 0) {
             assert(attrBuf.length >  offsetof(VolAttrBuf, mountPointSpace));
             assert(attrBuf.length <= sizeof(attrBuf));

             printf("Volume information for %s:\n", path);
             printf("ATTR_VOL_FILECOUNT:  %lu\n", attrBuf.fileCount);
             printf("ATTR_VOL_DIRCOUNT:   %lu\n", attrBuf.dirCount);
             printf(
                 "ATTR_VOL_MOUNTPOINT: %.*s\n",
                 (int) attrBuf.mountPointRef.attr_length,
                 ( ((char *) &attrBuf.mountPointRef)
                   + attrBuf.mountPointRef.attr_dataoffset )
             );
             printf(
                 "ATTR_VOL_NAME:       %.*s\n",
                 (int) attrBuf.volNameRef.attr_length,
                 ( ((char *) &attrBuf.volNameRef)
                   + attrBuf.volNameRef.attr_dataoffset )
             );
         }

         return err;
     }

SEE ALSO
     access(2), chflags(2), exchangedata(2), fcntl(2), getdirentriesattr(2),
     mount(2), searchfs(2), setattrlist(2), stat(2), statfs(2)

HISTORY
     A getattrlist() function call appeared in Darwin 1.3.1 (Mac OS X version
     10.0).

Darwin                         October 14, 2004                         Darwin