1 /* core functions for copying files and directories
2 Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-2007 Free Software Foundation.
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
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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
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15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Extracted from cp.c and librarified by Jim Meyering. */
26 /* Control creation of sparse files (files with holes). */
31 /* Never create holes in DEST. */
34 /* This is the default. Use a crude (and sometimes inaccurate)
35 heuristic to determine if SOURCE has holes. If so, try to create
39 /* For every sufficiently long sequence of bytes in SOURCE, try to
40 create a corresponding hole in DEST. There is a performance penalty
41 here because CP has to search for holes in SRC. But if the holes are
42 big enough, that penalty can be offset by the decrease in the amount
43 of data written to disk. */
47 /* This type is used to help mv (via copy.c) distinguish these cases. */
56 /* How to handle symbolic links. */
57 enum Dereference_symlink
61 /* Copy the symbolic link itself. -P */
64 /* If the symbolic is a command line argument, then copy
65 its referent. Otherwise, copy the symbolic link itself. -H */
66 DEREF_COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENTS
,
68 /* Copy the referent of the symbolic link. -L */
72 # define VALID_SPARSE_MODE(Mode) \
73 ((Mode) == SPARSE_NEVER \
74 || (Mode) == SPARSE_AUTO \
75 || (Mode) == SPARSE_ALWAYS)
77 /* These options control how files are copied by at least the
78 following programs: mv (when rename doesn't work), cp, install.
79 So, if you add a new member, be sure to initialize it in
80 mv.c, cp.c, and install.c. */
83 enum backup_type backup_type
;
85 /* If true, copy all files except (directories and, if not dereferencing
86 them, symbolic links,) as if they were regular files. */
89 /* How to handle symlinks in the source. */
90 enum Dereference_symlink dereference
;
92 /* If true, remove each existing destination nondirectory before
94 bool unlink_dest_before_opening
;
96 /* If true, first try to open each existing destination nondirectory,
97 then, if the open fails, unlink and try again.
98 This option must be set for `cp -f', in case the destination file
99 exists when the open is attempted. It is irrelevant to `mv' since
100 any destination is sure to be removed before the open. */
101 bool unlink_dest_after_failed_open
;
103 /* If true, create hard links instead of copying files.
104 Create destination directories as usual. */
107 /* This value is used to determine whether to prompt before removing
108 each existing destination file. It works differently depending on
109 whether move_mode is set. See code/comments in copy.c. */
110 enum Interactive interactive
;
112 /* If true, rather than copying, first attempt to use rename.
113 If that fails, then resort to copying. */
116 /* Whether this process has appropriate privileges to chown a file
117 whose owner is not the effective user ID. */
118 bool chown_privileges
;
120 /* If true, when copying recursively, skip any subdirectories that are
121 on different file systems from the one we started on. */
122 bool one_file_system
;
124 /* If true, attempt to give the copies the original files' permissions,
125 owner, group, and timestamps. */
126 bool preserve_ownership
;
128 bool preserve_timestamps
;
130 /* Enabled for mv, and for cp by the --preserve=links option.
131 If true, attempt to preserve in the destination files any
132 logical hard links between the source files. If used with cp's
133 --no-dereference option, and copying two hard-linked files,
134 the two corresponding destination files will also be hard linked.
136 If used with cp's --dereference (-L) option, then, as that option implies,
137 hard links are *not* preserved. However, when copying a file F and
138 a symlink S to F, the resulting S and F in the destination directory
139 will be hard links to the same file (a copy of F). */
142 /* If true and any of the above (for preserve) file attributes cannot
143 be applied to a destination file, treat it as a failure and return
144 nonzero immediately. E.g. for cp -p this must be true, for mv it
146 bool require_preserve
;
148 /* If true, attempt to preserve the SELinux security context, too.
149 Set this only if the kernel is SELinux enabled. */
150 bool preserve_security_context
;
152 /* Useful only when preserve_security_context is true.
153 If true, a failed attempt to preserve a file's security context
154 propagates failure "out" to the caller. If false, a failure to
155 preserve a file's security context does not change the invoking
156 application's exit status. Give diagnostics for failed syscalls
157 regardless of this setting. For example, with "cp --preserve=context"
158 this flag is "true", while with "cp -a", it is false. That means
159 "cp -a" attempts to preserve any security context, but does not
160 fail if it is unable to do so. */
161 bool require_preserve_context
;
163 /* If true, copy directories recursively and copy special files
164 as themselves rather than copying their contents. */
167 /* If true, set file mode to value of MODE. Otherwise,
168 set it based on current umask modified by UMASK_KILL. */
171 /* Set the mode of the destination file to exactly this value
172 if SET_MODE is nonzero. */
175 /* Control creation of sparse files. */
176 enum Sparse_type sparse_mode
;
178 /* If true, create symbolic links instead of copying files.
179 Create destination directories as usual. */
182 /* If true, do not copy a nondirectory that has an existing destination
183 with the same or newer modification time. */
186 /* If true, display the names of the files before copying them. */
189 /* If true, stdin is a tty. */
192 /* This is a set of destination name/inode/dev triples. Each such triple
193 represents a file we have created corresponding to a source file name
194 that was specified on the command line. Use it to avoid clobbering
195 source files in commands like this:
196 rm -rf a b c; mkdir a b c; touch a/f b/f; mv a/f b/f c
197 For now, it protects only regular files when copying (i.e. not renaming).
198 When renaming, it protects all non-directories.
199 Use dest_info_init to initialize it, or set it to NULL to disable
201 Hash_table
*dest_info
;
204 Hash_table
*src_info
;
207 # define XSTAT(X, Src_name, Src_sb) \
208 ((X)->dereference == DEREF_NEVER \
209 ? lstat (Src_name, Src_sb) \
210 : stat (Src_name, Src_sb))
212 /* Arrange to make rename calls go through the wrapper function
213 on systems with a rename function that fails for a source file name
214 specified with a trailing slash. */
215 # if RENAME_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG
216 int rpl_rename (const char *, const char *);
218 # define rename rpl_rename
221 bool copy (char const *src_name
, char const *dst_name
,
222 bool nonexistent_dst
, const struct cp_options
*options
,
223 bool *copy_into_self
, bool *rename_succeeded
);
225 void dest_info_init (struct cp_options
*);
226 void src_info_init (struct cp_options
*);
228 bool chown_privileges (void);
229 bool chown_failure_ok (struct cp_options
const *);
230 mode_t
cached_umask (void);