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CHFLAGS(2) BSD Programmer's Manual CHFLAGS(2) NAME chflags, fchflags - set file flags SYNOPSIS #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> int chflags(const char *path, u_long flags); int fchflags(int fd, u_long flags); DESCRIPTION The file whose name is given by path or referenced by the descriptor fd has its flags changed to flags. The flags specified are formed by or'ing the following values UF_NODUMP Do not dump the file. UF_IMMUTABLE The file may not be changed. UF_APPEND The file may only be appended to. UF_OPAQUE The directory is opaque when viewed through a union stack. SF_IMMUTABLE The file may not be changed. SF_APPEND The file may only be appended to. The ``UF_IMMUTABLE'' and ``UF_APPEND'' flags may be set or unset by ei- ther the owner of a file or the super-user. The ``SF_IMMUTABLE'' and ``SF_APPEND'' flags may only be set or unset by the super-user. Attempts by the non-super-user to set the super-user on- ly flags are silently ignored. These flags may be set at any time, but normally may only be unset when the system is in single-user mode. (See init(8) for details.) RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS Chflags() will fail it: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory. [EINVAL] The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. [ENOENT] The named file does not exist. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. [EPERM] The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and the effective user ID is not the super-user. [EROFS] The named file resides on a read-only file system. [EFAULT] Path points outside the process's allocated address space. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. Fchflags() will fail if: [EBADF] The descriptor is not valid. [EINVAL] Fd refers to a socket, not to a file. [EPERM] The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and the effective user ID is not the super-user. [EROFS] The file resides on a read-only file system. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. SEE ALSO chflags(1), init(8), mount_union(8) HISTORY The chflags and fchflags functions first appeared in 4.4BSD. 4.4BSD May 2, 1995 2
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