tests: add fold(1) test for --bytes option
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1 /* core functions for copying files and directories
2 Copyright (C) 1989-2024 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 /* Control how existing destination files are updated. */
61 enum Update_type
63 /* Always update.. */
64 UPDATE_ALL,
66 /* Update if dest older. */
67 UPDATE_OLDER,
69 /* Leave existing files. */
70 UPDATE_NONE,
72 /* Leave existing files, but exit failure if existing files. */
73 UPDATE_NONE_FAIL,
76 /* This type is used to help mv (via copy.c) distinguish these cases. */
77 enum Interactive
79 I_ALWAYS_YES = 1,
80 I_ALWAYS_NO, /* Skip and fail. */
81 I_ALWAYS_SKIP, /* Skip and ignore. */
82 I_ASK_USER,
83 I_UNSPECIFIED
86 /* How to handle symbolic links. */
87 enum Dereference_symlink
89 DEREF_UNDEFINED = 1,
91 /* Copy the symbolic link itself. -P */
92 DEREF_NEVER,
94 /* If the symbolic is a command line argument, then copy
95 its referent. Otherwise, copy the symbolic link itself. -H */
96 DEREF_COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENTS,
98 /* Copy the referent of the symbolic link. -L */
99 DEREF_ALWAYS
102 # define VALID_SPARSE_MODE(Mode) \
103 ((Mode) == SPARSE_NEVER \
104 || (Mode) == SPARSE_AUTO \
105 || (Mode) == SPARSE_ALWAYS)
107 # define VALID_REFLINK_MODE(Mode) \
108 ((Mode) == REFLINK_NEVER \
109 || (Mode) == REFLINK_AUTO \
110 || (Mode) == REFLINK_ALWAYS)
112 /* These options control how files are copied by at least the
113 following programs: mv (when rename doesn't work), cp, install.
114 So, if you add a new member, be sure to initialize it in
115 mv.c, cp.c, and install.c. */
116 struct cp_options
118 enum backup_type backup_type;
120 /* How to handle symlinks in the source. */
121 enum Dereference_symlink dereference;
123 /* This value is used to determine whether to prompt before removing
124 each existing destination file. It works differently depending on
125 whether move_mode is set. See code/comments in copy.c. */
126 enum Interactive interactive;
128 /* Control creation of sparse files. */
129 enum Sparse_type sparse_mode;
131 /* Set the mode of the destination file to exactly this value
132 if SET_MODE is nonzero. */
133 mode_t mode;
135 /* If true, copy all files except directories (and, if not dereferencing
136 them, symbolic links) as if they were regular files. */
137 bool copy_as_regular;
139 /* If true, remove each existing destination nondirectory before
140 trying to open it. */
141 bool unlink_dest_before_opening;
143 /* If true, first try to open each existing destination nondirectory,
144 then, if the open fails, unlink and try again.
145 This option must be set for 'cp -f', in case the destination file
146 exists when the open is attempted. It is irrelevant to 'mv' since
147 any destination is sure to be removed before the open. */
148 bool unlink_dest_after_failed_open;
150 /* If true, create hard links instead of copying files.
151 Create destination directories as usual. */
152 bool hard_link;
154 /* If MOVE_MODE, first try to rename.
155 If that fails and NO_COPY, fail instead of copying. */
156 bool move_mode, no_copy;
158 /* Exchange instead of renaming. Valid only if MOVE_MODE and if
159 BACKUP_TYPE == no_backups. */
160 bool exchange;
162 /* If true, install(1) is the caller. */
163 bool install_mode;
165 /* Whether this process has appropriate privileges to chown a file
166 whose owner is not the effective user ID. */
167 bool chown_privileges;
169 /* Whether this process has appropriate privileges to do the
170 following operations on a file even when it is owned by some
171 other user: set the file's atime, mtime, mode, or ACL; remove or
172 rename an entry in the file even though it is a sticky directory,
173 or to mount on the file. */
174 bool owner_privileges;
176 /* If true, when copying recursively, skip any subdirectories that are
177 on different file systems from the one we started on. */
178 bool one_file_system;
180 /* If true, attempt to give the copies the original files' permissions,
181 owner, group, and timestamps. */
182 bool preserve_ownership;
183 bool preserve_mode;
184 bool preserve_timestamps;
185 bool explicit_no_preserve_mode;
187 /* If non-null, attempt to set specified security context */
188 struct selabel_handle *set_security_context;
190 /* Enabled for mv, and for cp by the --preserve=links option.
191 If true, attempt to preserve in the destination files any
192 logical hard links between the source files. If used with cp's
193 --no-dereference option, and copying two hard-linked files,
194 the two corresponding destination files will also be hard linked.
196 If used with cp's --dereference (-L) option, then, as that option implies,
197 hard links are *not* preserved. However, when copying a file F and
198 a symlink S to F, the resulting S and F in the destination directory
199 will be hard links to the same file (a copy of F). */
200 bool preserve_links;
202 /* Optionally don't copy the data, either with CoW reflink files or
203 explicitly with the --attributes-only option. */
204 bool data_copy_required;
206 /* If true and any of the above (for preserve) file attributes cannot
207 be applied to a destination file, treat it as a failure and return
208 nonzero immediately. E.g. for cp -p this must be true, for mv it
209 must be false. */
210 bool require_preserve;
212 /* If true, attempt to preserve the SELinux security context, too.
213 Set this only if the kernel is SELinux enabled. */
214 bool preserve_security_context;
216 /* Useful only when preserve_context is true.
217 If true, a failed attempt to preserve file's security context
218 propagates failure "out" to the caller, along with full diagnostics.
219 If false, a failure to preserve file's security context does not
220 change the invoking application's exit status, but may output diagnostics.
221 For example, with 'cp --preserve=context' this flag is "true",
222 while with 'cp --preserve=all' or 'cp -a', it is "false". */
223 bool require_preserve_context;
225 /* If true, attempt to preserve extended attributes using libattr.
226 Ignored if coreutils are compiled without xattr support. */
227 bool preserve_xattr;
229 /* Useful only when preserve_xattr is true.
230 If true, a failed attempt to preserve file's extended attributes
231 propagates failure "out" to the caller, along with full diagnostics.
232 If false, a failure to preserve file's extended attributes does not
233 change the invoking application's exit status, but may output diagnostics.
234 For example, with 'cp --preserve=xattr' this flag is "true",
235 while with 'cp --preserve=all' or 'cp -a', it is "false". */
236 bool require_preserve_xattr;
238 /* This allows us to output warnings in cases 2 and 4 below,
239 while being quiet for case 1 (when reduce_diagnostics is true).
240 1. cp -a try to copy xattrs with no errors
241 2. cp --preserve=all copy xattrs with all but ENOTSUP warnings
242 3. cp --preserve=xattr,context copy xattrs with all errors
243 4. mv copy xattrs with all but ENOTSUP warnings
245 bool reduce_diagnostics;
247 /* If true, copy directories recursively and copy special files
248 as themselves rather than copying their contents. */
249 bool recursive;
251 /* If true, set file mode to value of MODE. Otherwise,
252 set it based on current umask modified by UMASK_KILL. */
253 bool set_mode;
255 /* If true, create symbolic links instead of copying files.
256 Create destination directories as usual. */
257 bool symbolic_link;
259 /* If true, do not copy a nondirectory that has an existing destination
260 with the same or newer modification time. */
261 bool update;
263 /* If true, display the names of the files before copying them. */
264 bool verbose;
266 /* If true, follow existing symlinks to directories when copying. */
267 bool keep_directory_symlink;
269 /* If true, display details of how files were copied. */
270 bool debug;
272 /* If true, stdin is a tty. */
273 bool stdin_tty;
275 /* If true, open a dangling destination symlink when not in move_mode.
276 Otherwise, copy_reg gives a diagnostic (it refuses to write through
277 such a symlink) and returns false. */
278 bool open_dangling_dest_symlink;
280 /* If true, this is the last filed to be copied. mv uses this to
281 avoid some unnecessary work. */
282 bool last_file;
284 /* Zero if the source has already been renamed to the destination; a
285 positive errno number if this failed with the given errno; -1 if
286 no attempt has been made to rename. Always -1, except for mv. */
287 int rename_errno;
289 /* Control creation of COW files. */
290 enum Reflink_type reflink_mode;
292 /* This is a set of destination name/inode/dev triples. Each such triple
293 represents a file we have created corresponding to a source file name
294 that was specified on the command line. Use it to avoid clobbering
295 source files in commands like this:
296 rm -rf a b c; mkdir a b c; touch a/f b/f; mv a/f b/f c
297 For now, it protects only regular files when copying (i.e., not renaming).
298 When renaming, it protects all non-directories.
299 Use dest_info_init to initialize it, or set it to nullptr to disable
300 this feature. */
301 Hash_table *dest_info;
303 /* FIXME */
304 Hash_table *src_info;
307 bool copy (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name,
308 int dst_dirfd, char const *dst_relname,
309 int nonexistent_dst, const struct cp_options *options,
310 bool *copy_into_self, bool *rename_succeeded)
311 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ((1, 2, 4, 6, 7));
313 extern bool set_process_security_ctx (char const *src_name,
314 char const *dst_name,
315 mode_t mode, bool new_dst,
316 const struct cp_options *x)
317 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
319 extern bool set_file_security_ctx (char const *dst_name,
320 bool recurse, const struct cp_options *x)
321 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
323 void dest_info_init (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
324 void dest_info_free (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
325 void src_info_init (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
326 void src_info_free (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
328 void cp_options_default (struct cp_options *) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL ();
329 bool chown_failure_ok (struct cp_options const *)
330 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL () _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE;
331 mode_t cached_umask (void);
333 #endif