VOP_SETATTR9
Get and set attributes on a file or directory
Part of VOP_ATTRIB(9).
Usage
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/vnode.h>
int
VOP_GETATTR(struct, vnode, *vp, flags, struct, vattr, *vap, struct, ucred, *cred);
int
VOP_SETATTR(struct, vnode, *vp, struct, vattr, *vap, struct, ucred, *cred);
int
VOP_STAT(struct, vnode, *vp, struct, stat, *sb, flags, struct, ucred, *active_cred, struct, ucred, *file_cred);
Overview
These entry points manipulate various attributes of a file or directory, including file permissions, owner, group, size, access time and modification time.
VOP_STAT() returns data in a format suitable for the stat(2) system call and by default is implemented as a wrapper around VOP_GETATTR(). Filesystems may want to implement their own variant for performance reasons.
For VOP_GETATTR() and VOP_SETATTR() the arguments are:
- vp
-
The vnode of the file.
- vap
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The attributes of the file.
- cred
-
The user credentials of the calling thread.
For VOP_STAT() the arguments are:
- vp
-
The vnode of the file.
- sb
-
The attributes of the file.
- active_cred
-
The user credentials of the calling thread.
- file_cred
-
The credentials installed on the file description pointing to the vnode or NOCRED.
Attributes which are not being modified by VOP_SETATTR() should be set to the value VNOVAL; VATTR_NULL() may be used to clear all the values, and should generally be used to reset the contents of *vap prior to setting specific values.
Locks
Both VOP_GETATTR() and VOP_STAT() expect the vnode to be locked on entry and will leave the vnode locked on return. The lock type can be either shared or exclusive.
VOP_SETATTR() expects the vnode to be locked on entry and will leave the vnode locked on return. The lock type must be exclusive.
Return values
VOP_GETATTR() returns 0 if it was able to retrieve the attribute data via *vap, otherwise an appropriate error is returned. VOP_SETATTR() returns zero if the attributes were changed successfully, otherwise an appropriate error is returned. VOP_STAT() returns 0 if it was able to retrieve the attribute data *sb, otherwise an appropriate error is returned.
Errors
- [EPERM]
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The file is immutable.
- [EACCES]
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The caller does not have permission to modify the file or directory attributes.
- [EROFS]
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The file system is read-only.
Releases
83 releases since FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE; the text changed 44 times.