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31.Dd July 24, 1996
32.Os
33.Dt VOP_ATTRIB 9
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm VOP_GETATTR ,
36.Nm VOP_SETATTR
37.Nd get and set attributes on a file or directory
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In sys/param.h
40.In sys/vnode.h
41.Ft int
42.Fn VOP_GETATTR "struct vnode *vp" "struct vattr *vap" "struct ucred *cred" "struct thread *td"
43.Ft int
44.Fn VOP_SETATTR "struct vnode *vp" "struct vattr *vap" "struct ucred *cred" "struct thread *td"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46These entry points manipulate various attributes of a file or directory,
47including file permissions, owner, group, size,
48access time and modification time.
49.Pp
50The arguments are:
51.Bl -tag -width cred
52.It Fa vp
53The vnode of the file.
54.It Fa vap
55The attributes of the file.
56.It Fa cred
57The user credentials of the calling process.
58.It Fa td
59The thread.
60.El
61.Pp
62Attributes which are not being modified by
63.Fn VOP_SETATTR
64should be set to the value
65.Dv VNOVAL ;
66.Fn VATTR_NULL
67may be used to clear all the values, and should generally be used to reset
68the contents of
69.Fa *vap
70prior to setting specific values.
71.Sh LOCKS
72.Fn VOP_GETATTR
73expects the vnode to be locked on entry and will leave the vnode locked on
74return.
75The lock type can be either shared or exclusive.
76.Pp
77.Fn VOP_SETATTR
78expects the vnode to be locked on entry and will leave the vnode locked on
79return.
80The lock type must be exclusive.
81.Sh RETURN VALUES
82.Fn VOP_GETATTR
83returns 0 if it was able to retrieve the attribute data via
84.Fa *vap ,
85otherwise an appropriate error is returned.
86.Fn VOP_SETATTR
87returns zero if the attributes were changed successfully, otherwise an
88appropriate error is returned.
89.Sh PSEUDOCODE
90.Bd -literal
91int
92vop_getattr(struct vnode *vp, struct vattr *vap,
93	    struct ucred *cred, struct thread *td)
94{
95    /*
96     * Fill in the contents of *vap with information from
97     * the file system.
98     */
99    ...;
100
101    return 0;
102}
103
104int
105vop_setattr(struct vnode *vp, struct vattr *vap,
106	    struct ucred *cred, struct thread *td)
107{
108    /*
109     * Check for unsettable attributes.
110     */
111    if ((vap->va_type != VNON) || (vap->va_nlink != VNOVAL) ||
112	(vap->va_fsid != VNOVAL) || (vap->va_fileid != VNOVAL) ||
113	(vap->va_blocksize != VNOVAL) || (vap->va_rdev != VNOVAL) ||
114	((int)vap->va_bytes != VNOVAL) || (vap->va_gen != VNOVAL)) {
115	return (EINVAL);
116    }
117
118    if (vap->va_flags != VNOVAL) {
119	/*
120	 * Set the immutable and append flags of the file.
121	 */
122    }
123
124    if (vap->va_uid != (uid_t)VNOVAL || vap->va_gid != (gid_t)VNOVAL) {
125	/*
126	 * Change owner and/or group of the file.
127	 */
128    }
129
130    if (vap->va_size != VNOVAL) {
131	/*
132	 * Truncate the file to the specified size.
133	 */
134    }
135
136    if (vap->va_atime.tv_sec != VNOVAL || vap->va_mtime.tv_sec != VNOVAL) {
137	/*
138	 * Change access and/or modification time of file.
139	 */
140    }
141
142    if (vap->va_mode != (mode_t)VNOVAL) {
143	/*
144	 * Change permissions of file.
145	 */
146    }
147
148    return 0;
149}
150.Ed
151.Sh ERRORS
152.Bl -tag -width Er
153.It Bq Er EPERM
154The file is immutable.
155.It Bq Er EACCES
156The caller does not have permission to modify the file or directory attributes.
157.It Bq Er EROFS
158The file system is read-only.
159.El
160.Sh SEE ALSO
161.Xr VFS 9 ,
162.Xr vnode 9 ,
163.Xr VOP_ACCESS 9
164.Sh AUTHORS
165This manual page was written by
166.An Doug Rabson .
167