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28.Dd January 1, 2000
29.Dt STRTOFFLAGS 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm fflagstostr ,
33.Nm strtofflags
34.Nd convert between file flag bits and their string names
35.Sh LIBRARY
36.Lb libc
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In unistd.h
39.Ft char *
40.Fn fflagstostr "u_long flags"
41.Ft int
42.Fn strtofflags "char **stringp" "u_long *setp" "u_long *clrp"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Fn fflagstostr
46function returns a comma separated string of the file flags represented by
47.Fa flags .
48If no flags are set a zero length string is returned.
49.Pp
50If memory cannot be allocated for the return value,
51.Fn fflagstostr
52returns
53.Dv NULL .
54.Pp
55The value returned from
56.Fn fflagstostr
57is obtained from
58.Fn malloc
59and should be returned to the system with
60.Fn free
61when the program is done with it.
62.Pp
63The
64.Fn strtofflags
65function takes a string of file flags, as described in
66.Xr chflags 1 ,
67parses it, and returns the 'set' flags and 'clear' flags
68such as would be given as arguments to
69.Xr chflags 2 .
70On success
71.Fn strtofflags
72returns 0, otherwise it returns non-zero and
73.Fa stringp
74is left pointing to the offending token.
75.Sh ERRORS
76The
77.Fn fflagstostr
78function
79may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
80routine
81.Xr malloc 3 .
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr chflags 1 ,
84.Xr chflags 2 ,
85.Xr malloc 3
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Fn fflagstostr
89and
90.Fn strtofflags
91functions first appeared in
92.Fx 4.0 .
93