MirBSD manpage: getmode(3), setmode(3)

SETMODE(3)                 BSD Programmer's Manual                  SETMODE(3)

NAME

     getmode, setmode - modify mode bits

SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>

     mode_t
     getmode(const void *set, mode_t mode);

     void *
     setmode(const char *mode_str);

DESCRIPTION

     The getmode() function returns a copy of the file permission bits mode as
     altered by the values pointed to by set. While only the mode bits are al-
     tered, other parts of the file mode may be examined.

     The setmode() function takes an absolute (octal) or symbolic value, as
     described in chmod(1), as an argument and returns a pointer to mode
     values to be supplied to getmode(). Because some of the symbolic values
     are relative to the file creation mask, setmode() may call umask(2). If
     this occurs, the file creation mask will be restored before setmode() re-
     turns. If the calling program changes the value of its file creation mask
     after calling setmode(), setmode() must be called again if getmode() is
     to modify future file modes correctly.

     If the mode passed to setmode() is invalid, setmode() returns NULL. The
     caller is responsible for freeing the pointer that setmode() returns.

ERRORS

     The setmode() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors
     specified for the library routine malloc(3) or to ERANGE if an invalid
     octal value was specified.

SEE ALSO

     chmod(1), stat(2), umask(2), malloc(3)

HISTORY

     The getmode() and setmode() functions first appeared in 4.4BSD.

MirBSD #10-current               June 9, 1993                                1