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1 /* core functions for copying files and directories
2 Copyright (C) 1989-2013 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;
160 bool explicit_no_preserve_mode;
162 /* Enabled for mv, and for cp by the --preserve=links option.
163 If true, attempt to preserve in the destination files any
164 logical hard links between the source files. If used with cp's
165 --no-dereference option, and copying two hard-linked files,
166 the two corresponding destination files will also be hard linked.
168 If used with cp's --dereference (-L) option, then, as that option implies,
169 hard links are *not* preserved. However, when copying a file F and
170 a symlink S to F, the resulting S and F in the destination directory
171 will be hard links to the same file (a copy of F). */
172 bool preserve_links;
174 /* Optionally don't copy the data, either with CoW reflink files or
175 explicitly with the --attributes-only option. */
176 bool data_copy_required;
178 /* If true and any of the above (for preserve) file attributes cannot
179 be applied to a destination file, treat it as a failure and return
180 nonzero immediately. E.g. for cp -p this must be true, for mv it
181 must be false. */
182 bool require_preserve;
184 /* If true, attempt to preserve the SELinux security context, too.
185 Set this only if the kernel is SELinux enabled. */
186 bool preserve_security_context;
188 /* Useful only when preserve_context is true.
189 If true, a failed attempt to preserve file's security context
190 propagates failure "out" to the caller, along with full diagnostics.
191 If false, a failure to preserve file's security context does not
192 change the invoking application's exit status, but may output diagnostics.
193 For example, with 'cp --preserve=context' this flag is "true",
194 while with 'cp --preserve=all' or 'cp -a', it is "false". */
195 bool require_preserve_context;
197 /* If true, attempt to preserve extended attributes using libattr.
198 Ignored if coreutils are compiled without xattr support. */
199 bool preserve_xattr;
201 /* Useful only when preserve_xattr is true.
202 If true, a failed attempt to preserve file's extended attributes
203 propagates failure "out" to the caller, along with full diagnostics.
204 If false, a failure to preserve file's extended attributes does not
205 change the invoking application's exit status, but may output diagnostics.
206 For example, with 'cp --preserve=xattr' this flag is "true",
207 while with 'cp --preserve=all' or 'cp -a', it is "false". */
208 bool require_preserve_xattr;
210 /* This allows us to output warnings in cases 2 and 4 below,
211 while being quiet for case 1 (when reduce_diagnostics is true).
212 1. cp -a try to copy xattrs with no errors
213 2. cp --preserve=all copy xattrs with all but ENOTSUP warnings
214 3. cp --preserve=xattr,context copy xattrs with all errors
215 4. mv copy xattrs with all but ENOTSUP warnings
217 bool reduce_diagnostics;
219 /* If true, copy directories recursively and copy special files
220 as themselves rather than copying their contents. */
221 bool recursive;
223 /* If true, set file mode to value of MODE. Otherwise,
224 set it based on current umask modified by UMASK_KILL. */
225 bool set_mode;
227 /* If true, create symbolic links instead of copying files.
228 Create destination directories as usual. */
229 bool symbolic_link;
231 /* If true, do not copy a nondirectory that has an existing destination
232 with the same or newer modification time. */
233 bool update;
235 /* If true, display the names of the files before copying them. */
236 bool verbose;
238 /* If true, stdin is a tty. */
239 bool stdin_tty;
241 /* If true, open a dangling destination symlink when not in move_mode.
242 Otherwise, copy_reg gives a diagnostic (it refuses to write through
243 such a symlink) and returns false. */
244 bool open_dangling_dest_symlink;
246 /* Control creation of COW files. */
247 enum Reflink_type reflink_mode;
249 /* This is a set of destination name/inode/dev triples. Each such triple
250 represents a file we have created corresponding to a source file name
251 that was specified on the command line. Use it to avoid clobbering
252 source files in commands like this:
253 rm -rf a b c; mkdir a b c; touch a/f b/f; mv a/f b/f c
254 For now, it protects only regular files when copying (i.e. not renaming).
255 When renaming, it protects all non-directories.
256 Use dest_info_init to initialize it, or set it to NULL to disable
257 this feature. */
258 Hash_table *dest_info;
260 /* FIXME */
261 Hash_table *src_info;
264 # define XSTAT(X, Src_name, Src_sb) \
265 ((X)->dereference == DEREF_NEVER \
266 ? lstat (Src_name, Src_sb) \
267 : stat (Src_name, Src_sb))
269 /* Arrange to make rename calls go through the wrapper function
270 on systems with a rename function that fails for a source file name
271 specified with a trailing slash. */
272 # if RENAME_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG
273 int rpl_rename (const char *, const char *);
274 # undef rename
275 # define rename rpl_rename
276 # endif
278 bool copy (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name,
279 bool nonexistent_dst, const struct cp_options *options,
280 bool *copy_into_self, bool *rename_succeeded);
282 void dest_info_init (struct cp_options *);
283 void src_info_init (struct cp_options *);
285 void cp_options_default (struct cp_options *);
286 bool chown_failure_ok (struct cp_options const *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE;
287 mode_t cached_umask (void);
289 #endif