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string to u_long and back using two functions, flags_to_string and string_to_flags, which co-existed with 'ls'. As time has progressed more and more other tools have used these private functions to manipulate the file flags. Recently I moved these functions from /usr/src/bin/ls to libutil, but after some discussion with bde it's been decided that they really ought to go in libc. There are two already existing libc functions for manipulating file modes: setmode and getmode. In keeping with these flags_to_string has been renamed getflags and string_to_flags to setflags. The manual page could probably be improved upon ;)
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.\" @(#)setmode.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd January 1, 2000
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.Dt SETFLAGS 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm getflags ,
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.Nm setflags
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.Nd modify file flag bits
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft char *
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.Fn getflags "u_long flags" "char *def"
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.Ft int
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.Fn setflags "char **stringp" "u_long *setp" "u_long *clrp"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn getflags
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function returns a comma separated string of the file flags represented by
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.Fa flags .
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If no flags are set the string
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.Fa def
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is returned instead.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn setflags
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function takes a string of file flags, as described in
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.Xr chflags 1 ,
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parses it, and returns the 'set' flags and 'clear' flags
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such as would be given as arguments to
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.Xr chflags 2 .
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On success
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.Fn setflags
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returns 0, otherwise it returns non-zero and
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.Fa stringp
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is left pointing to the offending token.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chflags 1 ,
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.Xr chflags 2 ,
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn getflags
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and
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.Fn setflags
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functions first appeared in
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.Fx 4.0 .
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