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34.\" @(#)chflags.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
35.\"
36.Dd June 9, 1993
37.Dt CHFLAGS 2
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm chflags ,
41.Nm fchflags
42.Nd set file flags
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Fd #include <sys/stat.h>
45.Fd #include <unistd.h>
46.Ft int
47.Fn chflags "const char *path" "u_long flags"
48.Ft int
49.Fn fchflags "int fd" "u_long flags"
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The file whose name
52is given by
53.Fa path
54or referenced by the descriptor
55.Fa fd
56has its flags changed to
57.Fa flags .
58.Pp
59The flags specified are formed by
60.Em or Ns 'ing
61the following values
62.Pp
63.Bl -tag -width "SF_IMMUTABLE" -compact -offset indent
64.It UF_NODUMP
65Do not dump the file.
66.It UF_IMMUTABLE
67The file may not be changed.
68.It UF_APPEND
69The file may only be appended to.
70.\".It ARCHIVED
71.\"File is archived.
72.It SF_IMMUTABLE
73The file may not be changed.
74.It SF_APPEND
75The file may only be appended to.
76.El
77.Pp
78The
79.Dq UF_IMMUTABLE
80and
81.Dq UF_APPEND
82flags may be set or unset by either the owner of a file or the super-user.
83.Pp
84The
85.Dq SF_IMMUTABLE
86and
87.Dq SF_APPEND
88flags may only be set or unset by the super-user.
89They may be set at any time, but normally may only be unset when
90the system is in single-user mode.
91(See
92.Xr init 8
93for details.)
94.Sh RETURN VALUES
95Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
96Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable
97.Va errno
98is set to indicate the error.
99.Sh ERRORS
100.Fn Chflags
101will fail it:
102.Bl -tag -width Er
103.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
104A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
105.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
106A component of a pathname exceeded
107.Dv {NAME_MAX}
108characters, or an entire path name exceeded
109.Dv {PATH_MAX}
110characters.
111.It Bq Er ENOENT
112The named file does not exist.
113.It Bq Er EACCES
114Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
115.It Bq Er ELOOP
116Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
117.It Bq Er EPERM
118The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and
119the effective user ID is not the super-user.
120.It Bq Er EROFS
121The named file resides on a read-only file system.
122.It Bq Er EFAULT
123.Fa Path
124points outside the process's allocated address space.
125.It Bq Er EIO
126An
127.Tn I/O
128error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
129.El
130.Pp
131.Fn Fchflags
132will fail if:
133.Bl -tag -width Er
134.It Bq Er EBADF
135The descriptor is not valid.
136.It Bq Er EINVAL
137.Fa fd
138refers to a socket, not to a file.
139.It Bq Er EPERM
140The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and
141the effective user ID is not the super-user.
142.It Bq Er EROFS
143The file resides on a read-only file system.
144.It Bq Er EIO
145An
146.Tn I/O
147error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
148.El
149.Sh SEE ALSO
150.Xr chflags 1 ,
151.Xr init 8
152.Sh HISTORY
153The
154.Fn chflags
155and
156.Nm fchflags
157functions first appeared in 4.4BSD.