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1 /* core functions for copying files and directories
2 Copyright (C) 1989-1991, 1995-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Extracted from cp.c and librarified by Jim Meyering. */
19 #ifndef COPY_H
20 # define COPY_H
22 # include <stdbool.h>
23 # include "hash.h"
25 /* Control creation of sparse files (files with holes). */
26 enum Sparse_type
28 SPARSE_UNUSED,
30 /* Never create holes in DEST. */
31 SPARSE_NEVER,
33 /* This is the default. Use a crude (and sometimes inaccurate)
34 heuristic to determine if SOURCE has holes. If so, try to create
35 holes in DEST. */
36 SPARSE_AUTO,
38 /* For every sufficiently long sequence of bytes in SOURCE, try to
39 create a corresponding hole in DEST. There is a performance penalty
40 here because CP has to search for holes in SRC. But if the holes are
41 big enough, that penalty can be offset by the decrease in the amount
42 of data written to disk. */
43 SPARSE_ALWAYS
46 /* Control creation of COW files. */
47 enum Reflink_type
49 /* Default to a standard copy. */
50 REFLINK_NEVER,
52 /* Try a COW copy and fall back to a standard copy. */
53 REFLINK_AUTO,
55 /* Require a COW copy and fail if not available. */
56 REFLINK_ALWAYS
59 /* This type is used to help mv (via copy.c) distinguish these cases. */
60 enum Interactive
62 I_ALWAYS_YES = 1,
63 I_ALWAYS_NO,
64 I_ASK_USER,
65 I_UNSPECIFIED
68 /* How to handle symbolic links. */
69 enum Dereference_symlink
71 DEREF_UNDEFINED = 1,
73 /* Copy the symbolic link itself. -P */
74 DEREF_NEVER,
76 /* If the symbolic is a command line argument, then copy
77 its referent. Otherwise, copy the symbolic link itself. -H */
78 DEREF_COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENTS,
80 /* Copy the referent of the symbolic link. -L */
81 DEREF_ALWAYS
84 # define VALID_SPARSE_MODE(Mode) \
85 ((Mode) == SPARSE_NEVER \
86 || (Mode) == SPARSE_AUTO \
87 || (Mode) == SPARSE_ALWAYS)
89 # define VALID_REFLINK_MODE(Mode) \
90 ((Mode) == REFLINK_NEVER \
91 || (Mode) == REFLINK_AUTO \
92 || (Mode) == REFLINK_ALWAYS)
94 /* These options control how files are copied by at least the
95 following programs: mv (when rename doesn't work), cp, install.
96 So, if you add a new member, be sure to initialize it in
97 mv.c, cp.c, and install.c. */
98 struct cp_options
100 enum backup_type backup_type;
102 /* How to handle symlinks in the source. */
103 enum Dereference_symlink dereference;
105 /* This value is used to determine whether to prompt before removing
106 each existing destination file. It works differently depending on
107 whether move_mode is set. See code/comments in copy.c. */
108 enum Interactive interactive;
110 /* Control creation of sparse files. */
111 enum Sparse_type sparse_mode;
113 /* Set the mode of the destination file to exactly this value
114 if SET_MODE is nonzero. */
115 mode_t mode;
117 /* If true, copy all files except (directories and, if not dereferencing
118 them, symbolic links,) as if they were regular files. */
119 bool copy_as_regular;
121 /* If true, remove each existing destination nondirectory before
122 trying to open it. */
123 bool unlink_dest_before_opening;
125 /* If true, first try to open each existing destination nondirectory,
126 then, if the open fails, unlink and try again.
127 This option must be set for `cp -f', in case the destination file
128 exists when the open is attempted. It is irrelevant to `mv' since
129 any destination is sure to be removed before the open. */
130 bool unlink_dest_after_failed_open;
132 /* If true, create hard links instead of copying files.
133 Create destination directories as usual. */
134 bool hard_link;
136 /* If true, rather than copying, first attempt to use rename.
137 If that fails, then resort to copying. */
138 bool move_mode;
140 /* Whether this process has appropriate privileges to chown a file
141 whose owner is not the effective user ID. */
142 bool chown_privileges;
144 /* Whether this process has appropriate privileges to do the
145 following operations on a file even when it is owned by some
146 other user: set the file's atime, mtime, mode, or ACL; remove or
147 rename an entry in the file even though it is a sticky directory,
148 or to mount on the file. */
149 bool owner_privileges;
151 /* If true, when copying recursively, skip any subdirectories that are
152 on different file systems from the one we started on. */
153 bool one_file_system;
155 /* If true, attempt to give the copies the original files' permissions,
156 owner, group, and timestamps. */
157 bool preserve_ownership;
158 bool preserve_mode;
159 bool preserve_timestamps;
161 /* Enabled for mv, and for cp by the --preserve=links option.
162 If true, attempt to preserve in the destination files any
163 logical hard links between the source files. If used with cp's
164 --no-dereference option, and copying two hard-linked files,
165 the two corresponding destination files will also be hard linked.
167 If used with cp's --dereference (-L) option, then, as that option implies,
168 hard links are *not* preserved. However, when copying a file F and
169 a symlink S to F, the resulting S and F in the destination directory
170 will be hard links to the same file (a copy of F). */
171 bool preserve_links;
173 /* If true and any of the above (for preserve) file attributes cannot
174 be applied to a destination file, treat it as a failure and return
175 nonzero immediately. E.g. for cp -p this must be true, for mv it
176 must be false. */
177 bool require_preserve;
179 /* If true, attempt to preserve the SELinux security context, too.
180 Set this only if the kernel is SELinux enabled. */
181 bool preserve_security_context;
183 /* Useful only when preserve_security_context is true.
184 If true, a failed attempt to preserve a file's security context
185 propagates failure "out" to the caller. If false, a failure to
186 preserve a file's security context does not change the invoking
187 application's exit status. Give diagnostics for failed syscalls
188 regardless of this setting. For example, with "cp --preserve=context"
189 this flag is "true", while with "cp -a", it is false. That means
190 "cp -a" attempts to preserve any security context, but does not
191 fail if it is unable to do so. */
192 bool require_preserve_context;
194 /* If true, attempt to preserve extended attributes using libattr.
195 Ignored if coreutils are compiled without xattr support. */
196 bool preserve_xattr;
198 /* Useful only when preserve_xattr is true.
199 If true, a failed attempt to preserve file's extended attributes
200 propagates failure "out" to the caller. If false, a failure to
201 preserve file's extended attributes does not change the invoking
202 application's exit status. Give diagnostics for failed syscalls
203 regardless of this setting. For example, with "cp --preserve=xattr"
204 this flag is "true", while with "cp --preserve=all", it is false. */
205 bool require_preserve_xattr;
207 /* Used as difference boolean between cp -a and cp -dR --preserve=all.
208 If true, non-mandatory failure diagnostics are not displayed. This
209 should prevent poluting cp -a output.
211 bool reduce_diagnostics;
213 /* If true, copy directories recursively and copy special files
214 as themselves rather than copying their contents. */
215 bool recursive;
217 /* If true, set file mode to value of MODE. Otherwise,
218 set it based on current umask modified by UMASK_KILL. */
219 bool set_mode;
221 /* If true, create symbolic links instead of copying files.
222 Create destination directories as usual. */
223 bool symbolic_link;
225 /* If true, do not copy a nondirectory that has an existing destination
226 with the same or newer modification time. */
227 bool update;
229 /* If true, display the names of the files before copying them. */
230 bool verbose;
232 /* If true, stdin is a tty. */
233 bool stdin_tty;
235 /* If true, open a dangling destination symlink when not in move_mode.
236 Otherwise, copy_reg gives a diagnostic (it refuses to write through
237 such a symlink) and returns false. */
238 bool open_dangling_dest_symlink;
240 /* Control creation of COW files. */
241 enum Reflink_type reflink_mode;
243 /* This is a set of destination name/inode/dev triples. Each such triple
244 represents a file we have created corresponding to a source file name
245 that was specified on the command line. Use it to avoid clobbering
246 source files in commands like this:
247 rm -rf a b c; mkdir a b c; touch a/f b/f; mv a/f b/f c
248 For now, it protects only regular files when copying (i.e. not renaming).
249 When renaming, it protects all non-directories.
250 Use dest_info_init to initialize it, or set it to NULL to disable
251 this feature. */
252 Hash_table *dest_info;
254 /* FIXME */
255 Hash_table *src_info;
258 # define XSTAT(X, Src_name, Src_sb) \
259 ((X)->dereference == DEREF_NEVER \
260 ? lstat (Src_name, Src_sb) \
261 : stat (Src_name, Src_sb))
263 /* Arrange to make rename calls go through the wrapper function
264 on systems with a rename function that fails for a source file name
265 specified with a trailing slash. */
266 # if RENAME_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG
267 int rpl_rename (const char *, const char *);
268 # undef rename
269 # define rename rpl_rename
270 # endif
272 bool copy (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name,
273 bool nonexistent_dst, const struct cp_options *options,
274 bool *copy_into_self, bool *rename_succeeded);
276 void dest_info_init (struct cp_options *);
277 void src_info_init (struct cp_options *);
279 void cp_options_default (struct cp_options *);
280 bool chown_failure_ok (struct cp_options const *);
281 mode_t cached_umask (void);
283 #endif