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30.Dd January 1, 2000
31.Dt STRTOFFLAGS 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm fflagstostr ,
35.Nm strtofflags
36.Nd convert between file flag bits and their string names
37.Sh LIBRARY
38.Lb libc
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In unistd.h
41.Ft char *
42.Fn fflagstostr "u_long flags"
43.Ft int
44.Fn strtofflags "char **stringp" "u_long *setp" "u_long *clrp"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Fn fflagstostr
48function returns a comma separated string of the file flags represented by
49.Fa flags .
50If no flags are set a zero length string is returned.
51.Pp
52If memory cannot be allocated for the return value,
53.Fn fflagstostr
54returns
55.Dv NULL .
56.Pp
57The value returned from
58.Fn fflagstostr
59is obtained from
60.Fn malloc
61and should be returned to the system with
62.Fn free
63when the program is done with it.
64.Pp
65The
66.Fn strtofflags
67function takes a string of file flags, as described in
68.Xr chflags 1 ,
69parses it, and returns the 'set' flags and 'clear' flags
70such as would be given as arguments to
71.Xr chflags 2 .
72On success
73.Fn strtofflags
74returns 0, otherwise it returns non-zero and
75.Fa stringp
76is left pointing to the offending token.
77.Sh ERRORS
78The
79.Fn fflagstostr
80function
81may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
82routine
83.Xr malloc 3 .
84.Sh SEE ALSO
85.Xr chflags 1 ,
86.Xr chflags 2 ,
87.Xr malloc 3
88.Sh HISTORY
89The
90.Fn fflagstostr
91and
92.Fn strtofflags
93functions first appeared in
94.Fx 4.0 .
95