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1 /* core functions for copying files and directories
2 Copyright (C) 1989-2023 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 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Extracted from cp.c and librarified by Jim Meyering. */
19 #ifndef COPY_H
20 # define COPY_H
22 # include "hash.h"
24 struct selabel_handle;
26 /* Control creation of sparse files (files with holes). */
27 enum Sparse_type
29 SPARSE_UNUSED,
31 /* Never create holes in DEST. */
32 SPARSE_NEVER,
34 /* This is the default. Use a crude (and sometimes inaccurate)
35 heuristic to determine if SOURCE has holes. If so, try to create
36 holes in DEST. */
37 SPARSE_AUTO,
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 the file system. */
44 SPARSE_ALWAYS
47 /* Control creation of COW files. */
48 enum Reflink_type
50 /* Do a standard copy. */
51 REFLINK_NEVER,
53 /* Try a COW copy and fall back to a standard copy; this is the default. */
54 REFLINK_AUTO,
56 /* Require a COW copy and fail if not available. */
57 REFLINK_ALWAYS
60 /* This type is used to help mv (via copy.c) distinguish these cases. */
61 enum Interactive
63 I_ALWAYS_YES = 1,
64 I_ALWAYS_NO,
65 I_ASK_USER,
66 I_UNSPECIFIED
69 /* How to handle symbolic links. */
70 enum Dereference_symlink
72 DEREF_UNDEFINED = 1,
74 /* Copy the symbolic link itself. -P */
75 DEREF_NEVER,
77 /* If the symbolic is a command line argument, then copy
78 its referent. Otherwise, copy the symbolic link itself. -H */
79 DEREF_COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENTS,
81 /* Copy the referent of the symbolic link. -L */
82 DEREF_ALWAYS
85 # define VALID_SPARSE_MODE(Mode) \
86 ((Mode) == SPARSE_NEVER \
87 || (Mode) == SPARSE_AUTO \
88 || (Mode) == SPARSE_ALWAYS)
90 # define VALID_REFLINK_MODE(Mode) \
91 ((Mode) == REFLINK_NEVER \
92 || (Mode) == REFLINK_AUTO \
93 || (Mode) == REFLINK_ALWAYS)
95 /* These options control how files are copied by at least the
96 following programs: mv (when rename doesn't work), cp, install.
97 So, if you add a new member, be sure to initialize it in
98 mv.c, cp.c, and install.c. */
99 struct cp_options
101 enum backup_type backup_type;
103 /* How to handle symlinks in the source. */
104 enum Dereference_symlink dereference;
106 /* This value is used to determine whether to prompt before removing
107 each existing destination file. It works differently depending on
108 whether move_mode is set. See code/comments in copy.c. */
109 enum Interactive interactive;
111 /* Control creation of sparse files. */
112 enum Sparse_type sparse_mode;
114 /* Set the mode of the destination file to exactly this value
115 if SET_MODE is nonzero. */
116 mode_t mode;
118 /* If true, copy all files except (directories and, if not dereferencing
119 them, symbolic links,) as if they were regular files. */
120 bool copy_as_regular;
122 /* If true, remove each existing destination nondirectory before
123 trying to open it. */
124 bool unlink_dest_before_opening;
126 /* If true, first try to open each existing destination nondirectory,
127 then, if the open fails, unlink and try again.
128 This option must be set for 'cp -f', in case the destination file
129 exists when the open is attempted. It is irrelevant to 'mv' since
130 any destination is sure to be removed before the open. */
131 bool unlink_dest_after_failed_open;
133 /* If true, create hard links instead of copying files.
134 Create destination directories as usual. */
135 bool hard_link;
137 /* If MOVE_MODE, first try to rename.
138 If that fails and NO_COPY, fail instead of copying. */
139 bool move_mode, no_copy;
141 /* If true, install(1) is the caller. */
142 bool install_mode;
144 /* Whether this process has appropriate privileges to chown a file
145 whose owner is not the effective user ID. */
146 bool chown_privileges;
148 /* Whether this process has appropriate privileges to do the
149 following operations on a file even when it is owned by some
150 other user: set the file's atime, mtime, mode, or ACL; remove or
151 rename an entry in the file even though it is a sticky directory,
152 or to mount on the file. */
153 bool owner_privileges;
155 /* If true, when copying recursively, skip any subdirectories that are
156 on different file systems from the one we started on. */
157 bool one_file_system;
159 /* If true, attempt to give the copies the original files' permissions,
160 owner, group, and timestamps. */
161 bool preserve_ownership;
162 bool preserve_mode;
163 bool preserve_timestamps;
164 bool explicit_no_preserve_mode;
166 /* If non-null, attempt to set specified security context */
167 struct selabel_handle *set_security_context;
169 /* Enabled for mv, and for cp by the --preserve=links option.
170 If true, attempt to preserve in the destination files any
171 logical hard links between the source files. If used with cp's
172 --no-dereference option, and copying two hard-linked files,
173 the two corresponding destination files will also be hard linked.
175 If used with cp's --dereference (-L) option, then, as that option implies,
176 hard links are *not* preserved. However, when copying a file F and
177 a symlink S to F, the resulting S and F in the destination directory
178 will be hard links to the same file (a copy of F). */
179 bool preserve_links;
181 /* Optionally don't copy the data, either with CoW reflink files or
182 explicitly with the --attributes-only option. */
183 bool data_copy_required;
185 /* If true and any of the above (for preserve) file attributes cannot
186 be applied to a destination file, treat it as a failure and return
187 nonzero immediately. E.g. for cp -p this must be true, for mv it
188 must be false. */
189 bool require_preserve;
191 /* If true, attempt to preserve the SELinux security context, too.
192 Set this only if the kernel is SELinux enabled. */
193 bool preserve_security_context;
195 /* Useful only when preserve_context is true.
196 If true, a failed attempt to preserve file's security context
197 propagates failure "out" to the caller, along with full diagnostics.
198 If false, a failure to preserve file's security context does not
199 change the invoking application's exit status, but may output diagnostics.
200 For example, with 'cp --preserve=context' this flag is "true",
201 while with 'cp --preserve=all' or 'cp -a', it is "false". */
202 bool require_preserve_context;
204 /* If true, attempt to preserve extended attributes using libattr.
205 Ignored if coreutils are compiled without xattr support. */
206 bool preserve_xattr;
208 /* Useful only when preserve_xattr is true.
209 If true, a failed attempt to preserve file's extended attributes
210 propagates failure "out" to the caller, along with full diagnostics.
211 If false, a failure to preserve file's extended attributes does not
212 change the invoking application's exit status, but may output diagnostics.
213 For example, with 'cp --preserve=xattr' this flag is "true",
214 while with 'cp --preserve=all' or 'cp -a', it is "false". */
215 bool require_preserve_xattr;
217 /* This allows us to output warnings in cases 2 and 4 below,
218 while being quiet for case 1 (when reduce_diagnostics is true).
219 1. cp -a try to copy xattrs with no errors
220 2. cp --preserve=all copy xattrs with all but ENOTSUP warnings
221 3. cp --preserve=xattr,context copy xattrs with all errors
222 4. mv copy xattrs with all but ENOTSUP warnings
224 bool reduce_diagnostics;
226 /* If true, copy directories recursively and copy special files
227 as themselves rather than copying their contents. */
228 bool recursive;
230 /* If true, set file mode to value of MODE. Otherwise,
231 set it based on current umask modified by UMASK_KILL. */
232 bool set_mode;
234 /* If true, create symbolic links instead of copying files.
235 Create destination directories as usual. */
236 bool symbolic_link;
238 /* If true, do not copy a nondirectory that has an existing destination
239 with the same or newer modification time. */
240 bool update;
242 /* If true, display the names of the files before copying them. */
243 bool verbose;
245 /* If true, display details of how files were copied. */
246 bool debug;
248 /* If true, stdin is a tty. */
249 bool stdin_tty;
251 /* If true, open a dangling destination symlink when not in move_mode.
252 Otherwise, copy_reg gives a diagnostic (it refuses to write through
253 such a symlink) and returns false. */
254 bool open_dangling_dest_symlink;
256 /* If true, this is the last filed to be copied. mv uses this to
257 avoid some unnecessary work. */
258 bool last_file;
260 /* Zero if the source has already been renamed to the destination; a
261 positive errno number if this failed with the given errno; -1 if
262 no attempt has been made to rename. Always -1, except for mv. */
263 int rename_errno;
265 /* Control creation of COW files. */
266 enum Reflink_type reflink_mode;
268 /* This is a set of destination name/inode/dev triples. Each such triple
269 represents a file we have created corresponding to a source file name
270 that was specified on the command line. Use it to avoid clobbering
271 source files in commands like this:
272 rm -rf a b c; mkdir a b c; touch a/f b/f; mv a/f b/f c
273 For now, it protects only regular files when copying (i.e., not renaming).
274 When renaming, it protects all non-directories.
275 Use dest_info_init to initialize it, or set it to NULL to disable
276 this feature. */
277 Hash_table *dest_info;
279 /* FIXME */
280 Hash_table *src_info;
283 /* Arrange to make rename calls go through the wrapper function
284 on systems with a rename function that fails for a source file name
285 specified with a trailing slash. */
286 # if RENAME_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG
287 int rpl_rename (char const *, char const *);
288 # undef rename
289 # define rename rpl_rename
290 # endif
292 bool copy (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name,
293 int dst_dirfd, char const *dst_relname,
294 int nonexistent_dst, const struct cp_options *options,
295 bool *copy_into_self, bool *rename_succeeded)
296 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ((1, 2, 4, 6, 7));
298 extern bool set_process_security_ctx (char const *src_name,
299 char const *dst_name,
300 mode_t mode, bool new_dst,
301 const struct cp_options *x)
302 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
304 extern bool set_file_security_ctx (char const *dst_name,
305 bool recurse, const struct cp_options *x)
306 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
308 void dest_info_init (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
309 void dest_info_free (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
310 void src_info_init (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
311 void src_info_free (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
313 void cp_options_default (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
314 bool chown_failure_ok (struct cp_options const *)
315 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL () _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE;
316 mode_t cached_umask (void);
318 #endif