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Our man page already documented this partially but now we have some consistent behavior. PR: 136669 Obtained from: NetBSD (CVS rev. 1.31, 1.33) Relnotes: yes MFC after: 3 weeks
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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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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 February 22, 2015
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.Dt SETMODE 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm getmode ,
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.Nm setmode
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.Nd modify mode bits
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft mode_t
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.Fn getmode "const void *set" "mode_t mode"
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.Ft void *
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.Fn setmode "const char *mode_str"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn getmode
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function
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returns a copy of the file permission bits
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.Fa mode
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as altered by the values pointed to by
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.Fa set .
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While only the mode bits are altered, other parts of the file mode
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may be examined.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn setmode
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function
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takes an absolute (octal) or symbolic value, as described in
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.Xr chmod 1 ,
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as an argument
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and returns a pointer to mode values to be supplied to
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.Fn getmode .
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Because some of the symbolic values are relative to the file
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creation mask,
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.Fn setmode
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may call
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.Xr umask 2 .
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If this occurs, the file creation mask will be restored before
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.Fn setmode
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returns.
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If the calling program changes the value of its file creation mask
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after calling
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.Fn setmode ,
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.Fn setmode
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must be called again if
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.Fn getmode
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is to modify future file modes correctly.
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.Pp
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If the mode passed to
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.Fn setmode
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is invalid or if memory cannot be allocated for the return value,
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.Fn setmode
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returns
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.Dv NULL .
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.Pp
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The value returned from
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.Fn setmode
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is obtained from
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.Fn malloc
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and should be returned to the system with
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.Fn free
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when the program is done with it, generally after a call to
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.Fn getmode .
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn setmode
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function
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may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
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routine
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.Xr malloc 3
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or
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.Xr strtol 3 .
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In addition,
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.Fn setmode
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will fail and set
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.Va errno
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to:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa mode
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argument does not represent a valid mode.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chmod 1 ,
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.Xr stat 2 ,
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.Xr umask 2 ,
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.Xr malloc 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn getmode
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and
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.Fn setmode
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functions first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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