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UNDELETE(2) System Calls Manual UNDELETE(2) NAME undelete -- attempt to recover a deleted file LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int undelete(const char *path); DESCRIPTION The undelete() system call attempts to recover the deleted file named by path. Currently, this works only when the named object is a white- out in a union file system. The system call removes the whiteout caus- ing any objects in a lower layer of the union stack to become visible once more. Eventually, the undelete() functionality may be expanded to other file systems able to recover deleted files such as the log-structured file system. RETURN VALUES The undelete() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indi- cate the error. ERRORS The undelete() succeeds unless: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. [EEXIST] The path does not reference a whiteout. [ENOENT] The named whiteout does not exist. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. [EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory contain- ing the name to be undeleted. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in trans- lating the pathname. [EPERM] The directory containing the name is marked sticky, and the containing directory is not owned by the ef- fective user ID. [EINVAL] The last component of the path is `..'. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while updating the directory entry. [EINTEGRITY] Corrupted data was detected while reading from the file system. [EROFS] The name resides on a read-only file system. [EFAULT] The path argument points outside the process's allo- cated address space. SEE ALSO unlink(2), mount_unionfs(8) HISTORY The undelete() system call first appeared in 4.4BSD-Lite. FreeBSD 13.2 March 30, 2020 UNDELETE(2)
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