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SETATTRLIST(2) BSD System Calls Manual SETATTRLIST(2) NAME setattrlist -- set file system attributes SYNOPSIS #include <sys/attr.h> #include <unistd.h> int setattrlist(const char* path, struct attrlist * attrList, void * attrBuf, size_t attrBufSize, unsigned long options); DESCRIPTION The setattrlist() function sets attributes (that is, metadata) of file system objects. It is the logical opposite of getattrlist(2). The func-tion function tion sets attributes about the file system object specified by path from the values in the buffer specified by attrBuf and attrBufSize. The attrList parameter determines what attributes are set. The options parameter lets you control specific aspects of the function's behaviour. The setattrlist() 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 setattrlist(). The path parameter must reference a valid file system object. All direc-tories directories tories listed in the path name leading to the object must be searchable. You must own the file system object in order to set any of the following attributes: ATTR_CMN_GRPID ATTR_CMN_ACCESSMASK ATTR_CMN_FLAGS ATTR_CMN_CRTIME ATTR_CMN_MODTIME ATTR_CMN_CHGTIME ATTR_CMN_ACCTIME You must be root (that is, your process's effective UID must be 0) in order to change the ATTR_CMN_OWNERID attribute. Setting other attributes requires that you have write access to the object. The attrList parameter is a pointer to an attrlist structure. You are responsible for filling out all fields of this structure before calling the function. See the discussion of the getattrlist(2) function for a detailed description of this structure. To set an attribute you must set the corresponding bit in the appropriate attrgroup_t field of the attrlist structure. The attrBuf and attrBufSize parameters specify a buffer that contains the attribute values to set. Attributes are packed in exactly the same way as they are returned from getattrlist(2) except that, when setting attributes, the buffer does not include the leading unsigned long length value. The options parameter is a bit set that controls the behaviour of setattrlist(). The following option bits are defined. FSOPT_NOFOLLOW If this bit is set, setattrlist() will not follow a sym-link symlink link if it occurs as the last component of path. 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 setattrlist(). However, if a volume supports getattrlist(2), it must also support setattrlist(). See the documenta-tion documentation tion for getattrlist(2) for details on how to tell whether a volume sup-ports supports ports it. The setattrlist() 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 setattrlist(), you should be careful to support the behaviour specified by this document. ERRORS setattrlist() will fail if: [ENOTSUP] The volume does not support setattrlist(). [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. [EROFS] The volume is read-only. [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 try to set an invalid attribute. [EINVAL] You try to set an attribute that is read-only. [EINVAL] You try to set volume attributes and directory or file attributes at the same time. [EINVAL] You try to set volume attributes but path does not reference the root of the volume. [EPERM] You try to set an attribute that can only be set by the owner. [EACCES] You try to set an attribute that's only settable if you have write permission, and you do not have write permission. [EINVAL] The buffer size you specified in attrBufSize is too small to hold all the attributes that you are trying to set. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. CAVEATS If you try to set any volume attributes, you must set ATTR_VOL_INFO in the volattr field, even though it consumes no data from the attribute buffer. For more caveats, see also the compatibility notes above. EXAMPLES The following code shows how to set the file type and creator of a file by getting the ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO attribute using getattrlist(2), modify-ing modifying ing the appropriate fields of the 32-byte Finder information structure, and then setting the attribute back using setattrlist(). This assumes that the target volume supports the required 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 FInfoAttrBuf unsigned long length; fsobj_type_t objType; char finderInfo[32]; }; typedef struct FInfoAttrBuf FInfoAttrBuf; static int FInfoDemo( const char *path, const char *type, const char *creator ) { int err; attrlist_t attrList; FInfoAttrBuf attrBuf; assert( strlen(type) == 4 ); assert( strlen(creator) == 4 ); 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) && (attrBuf.objType != VREG) ) { fprintf(stderr, "Not a standard file.\n"); err = EINVAL; } else { memcpy( &attrBuf.finderInfo[0], type, 4 ); memcpy( &attrBuf.finderInfo[4], creator, 4 ); attrList.commonattr = ATTR_CMN_FNDRINFO; err = setattrlist( path, &attrList, attrBuf.finderInfo, sizeof(attrBuf.finderInfo), 0 ); } return err; } SEE ALSO chflags(2), chmod(2), chown(2), getattrlist(2), getdirentriesattr(2), searchfs(2), utimes(2) HISTORY A setattrlist() function call appeared in Darwin 1.3.1 (Mac OS X version 10.0). Darwin December 15, 2003 Darwin |