1.\" Copyright (c) 2006,2008 Joseph Koshy. All rights reserved. 2.\" 3.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 4.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 5.\" are met: 6.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 7.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 8.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 10.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 11.\" 12.\" This software is provided by Joseph Koshy ``as is'' and 13.\" any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the 14.\" implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose 15.\" are disclaimed. in no event shall Joseph Koshy be liable 16.\" for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential 17.\" damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods 18.\" or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) 19.\" however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict 20.\" liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way 21.\" out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of 22.\" such damage. 23.\" 24.\" $Id: elf_kind.3 3639 2018-10-14 14:07:02Z jkoshy $ 25.\" 26.Dd June 1, 2006 27.Dt ELF_KIND 3 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm elf_kind 31.Nd determine ELF file type 32.Sh LIBRARY 33.Lb libelf 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.In libelf.h 36.Ft Elf_Kind 37.Fn elf_kind "Elf *elf" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Fn elf_kind 41function identifies the kind of file associated with its argument 42.Ar elf . 43The argument 44.Ar elf 45is allowed to be NULL. 46.Sh RETURN VALUES 47The 48.Fn elf_kind 49function returns one of the following values: 50.Bl -tag -width indent 51.It Dv ELF_K_AR 52The file associated with argument 53.Ar elf 54is an archive. 55.It Dv ELF_K_ELF 56The file associated with argument 57.Ar elf 58is an ELF file. 59.It Dv ELF_K_NONE 60The argument 61.Ar elf 62was NULL, or the ELF library could not determine the type of the file 63associated with argument 64.Ar elf , 65or an error occurred when processing. 66.El 67.Sh SEE ALSO 68.Xr elf 3 , 69.Xr elf_begin 3 , 70.Xr elf_getident 3 , 71.Xr gelf 3 72