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   1 /* Prototypes for openat-style fd-relative functions for operating with
   2    extended file attributes.
   3
   4    Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5
   6    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   7    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   8    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
   9    (at your option) any later version.
  10
  11    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  12    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  13    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  14    GNU General Public License for more details.
  15
  16    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  17    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
  18
  19 #ifndef XATTRS_AT_H
  20 #define XATTRS_AT_H
  21
  22 #include <sys/types.h>
  23 #include <attr/xattr.h>
  24
  25 /* These are the dir-fd-relative variants of the functions without the
  26    "at" suffix.  For example, setxattrat (AT_FDCWD, path, name, value, size,
  27    flags &c) is usually equivalent to setxattr (file, name, value, size,
  28    flags).  For more info use the setxattr(2), getxattr(2) or listxattr(2)
  29    manpages. */
  30
  31 /* dir-fd-relative setxattr.  Operation sets the VALUE of the extended
  32    attribute identified by NAME and associated with the given PATH in the
  33    filesystem relatively to directory identified by DIR_FD.  See the
  34    setxattr(2) manpage for the description of all parameters. */
  35 int setxattrat (int dir_fd, const char *path, const char *name,
  36                 const void *value, size_t size, int flags);
  37
  38 /* dir-fd-relative lsetxattr.  This function is just like setxattrat,
  39    except when DIR_FD and FILE specify a symlink:  lsetxattrat operates on the
  40    symlink, while the setxattrat operates on the referent of the symlink.  */
  41 int lsetxattrat (int dir_fd, const char *path, const char *name,
  42                  const void *value, size_t size, int flags);
  43
  44 /* dir-fd-relative getxattr.  Operation gets the VALUE of the extended
  45    attribute idenfified by NAME and associated with the given PATH in the
  46    filesystem relatively to directory identified by DIR_FD.  For more info
  47    about all parameters see the getxattr(2) manpage. */
  48 ssize_t getxattrat (int dir_fd, const char *path, const char *name,
  49                     void *value, size_t size);
  50
  51 /* dir-fd-relative lgetxattr.  This function is just like getxattrat,
  52    except when DIR_FD and FILE specify a symlink:  lgetxattrat operates on the
  53    symlink, while the getxattrat operates on the referent of the symlink.  */
  54 ssize_t lgetxattrat (int dir_fd, const char *path, const char *name,
  55                      void *value, size_t size);
  56
  57 /* dir-fd-relative listxattr.  Obtain the list of extended attrubtes names.  For
  58    more info see the listxattr(2) manpage. */
  59 ssize_t listxattrat (int dir_fd, const char *path, char *list, size_t size);
  60
  61 /* dir-fd-relative llistxattr.  This function is just like listxattrat,
  62    except when DIR_FD and FILE specify a symlink:  llistxattr operates on the
  63    symlink, while the listxattrat operates on the referent of the symlink.  */
  64 ssize_t llistxattrat (int dir_fd, const char *path, char *list, size_t size);
  65
  66 #endif /* XATTRS_AT_H */