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-'\" t
-.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de)
-.\" and copyright (c) 1999 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
-.\" and copyright (c) 2006 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
-.\" and copyright (c) 2006 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-.\"
-.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-.\"
-.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:02:22 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.\" 2006-05-24, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
-.\" document FTW_ACTIONRETVAL; include .SH RETURN VALUE;
-.\" 2006-05-24, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net> and
-.\" Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-.\" reorganized and rewrote much of the page
-.\" 2006-05-24, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-.\" Added an example program.
-.\"
-.TH ftw 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.SH NAME
-ftw, nftw \- file tree walk
-.SH LIBRARY
-Standard C library
-.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.B #include <ftw.h>
-.P
-.BI "int nftw(const char *" dirpath ,
-.BI " int (*" fn ")(const char *" fpath ", const struct stat *" sb ,
-.BI " int " typeflag ", struct FTW *" ftwbuf ),
-.BI " int " nopenfd ", int " flags );
-.P
-.B [[deprecated]]
-.BI "int ftw(const char *" dirpath ,
-.BI " int (*" fn ")(const char *" fpath ", const struct stat *" sb ,
-.BI " int " typeflag ),
-.BI " int " nopenfd );
-.fi
-.P
-.RS -4
-Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
-.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
-.RE
-.P
-.BR nftw ():
-.nf
- _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
-.fi
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.BR nftw ()
-walks through the directory tree that is
-located under the directory \fIdirpath\fP,
-and calls \fIfn\fP() once for each entry in the tree.
-By default, directories are handled before the files and
-subdirectories they contain (preorder traversal).
-.P
-To avoid using up all of the calling process's file descriptors,
-\fInopenfd\fP specifies the maximum number of directories that
-.BR nftw ()
-will hold open simultaneously.
-When
-the search depth exceeds this,
-.BR nftw ()
-will become slower because
-directories have to be closed and reopened.
-.BR nftw ()
-uses at most
-one file descriptor for each level in the directory tree.
-.P
-For each entry found in the tree,
-.BR nftw ()
-calls
-\fIfn\fP() with four arguments:
-.IR fpath ,
-.IR sb ,
-.IR typeflag ,
-and
-.IR ftwbuf .
-.I fpath
-is the pathname of the entry,
-and is expressed either as a pathname relative to the calling process's
-current working directory at the time of the call to
-.BR nftw (),
-if
-.I dirpath
-was expressed as a relative pathname,
-or as an absolute pathname, if
-.I dirpath
-was expressed as an absolute pathname.
-.I sb
-is a pointer to the
-.I stat
-structure returned by a call to
-.BR stat (2)
-for
-.IR fpath .
-.P
-The
-.I typeflag
-argument passed to
-.IR fn ()
-is an integer that has one of the following values:
-.TP
-.B FTW_F
-.I fpath
-is a regular file.
-.TP
-.B FTW_D
-.I fpath
-is a directory.
-.TP
-.B FTW_DNR
-.I fpath
-is a directory which can't be read.
-.TP
-.B FTW_DP
-.I fpath
-is a directory, and \fBFTW_DEPTH\fP was specified in \fIflags\fP.
-(If
-.B FTW_DEPTH
-was not specified in
-.IR flags ,
-then directories will always be visited with
-.I typeflag
-set to
-.BR FTW_D .)
-All of the files
-and subdirectories within \fIfpath\fP have been processed.
-.TP
-.B FTW_NS
-The
-.BR stat (2)
-call failed on
-.IR fpath ,
-which is not a symbolic link.
-The probable cause for this is that the caller had read permission
-on the parent directory, so that the filename
-.I fpath
-could be seen,
-but did not have execute permission,
-so that the file could not be reached for
-.BR stat (2).
-The contents of the buffer pointed to by
-.I sb
-are undefined.
-.TP
-.B FTW_SL
-.I fpath
-is a symbolic link, and \fBFTW_PHYS\fP was set in \fIflags\fP.
-.\" To obtain the definition of this constant from
-.\" .IR <ftw.h> ,
-.\" either
-.\" .B _BSD_SOURCE
-.\" must be defined, or
-.\" .BR _XOPEN_SOURCE
-.\" must be defined with a value of 500 or more.
-.TP
-.B FTW_SLN
-.I fpath
-is a symbolic link pointing to a nonexistent file.
-(This occurs only if \fBFTW_PHYS\fP is not set.)
-In this case the
-.I sb
-argument passed to
-.IR fn ()
-contains information returned by performing
-.BR lstat (2)
-on the "dangling" symbolic link.
-(But see BUGS.)
-.P
-The fourth argument
-.RI ( ftwbuf )
-that
-.BR nftw ()
-supplies when calling
-\fIfn\fP()
-is a pointer to a structure of type \fIFTW\fP:
-.P
-.in +4n
-.EX
-struct FTW {
- int base;
- int level;
-};
-.EE
-.in
-.P
-.I base
-is the offset of the filename (i.e., basename component)
-in the pathname given in
-.IR fpath .
-.I level
-is the depth of
-.I fpath
-in the directory tree, relative to the root of the tree
-.RI ( dirpath ,
-which has depth 0).
-.P
-To stop the tree walk, \fIfn\fP() returns a nonzero value; this
-value will become the return value of
-.BR nftw ().
-As long as \fIfn\fP() returns 0,
-.BR nftw ()
-will continue either until it has traversed the entire tree,
-in which case it will return zero,
-or until it encounters an error (such as a
-.BR malloc (3)
-failure), in which case it will return \-1.
-.P
-Because
-.BR nftw ()
-uses dynamic data structures, the only safe way to
-exit out of a tree walk is to return a nonzero value from \fIfn\fP().
-To allow a signal to terminate the walk without causing a memory leak,
-have the handler set a global flag that is checked by \fIfn\fP().
-\fIDon't\fP use
-.BR longjmp (3)
-unless the program is going to terminate.
-.P
-The \fIflags\fP argument of
-.BR nftw ()
-is formed by ORing zero or more of the
-following flags:
-.TP
-.BR FTW_ACTIONRETVAL " (since glibc 2.3.3)"
-If this glibc-specific flag is set, then
-.BR nftw ()
-handles the return value from
-.IR fn ()
-differently.
-.IR fn ()
-should return one of the following values:
-.RS
-.TP
-.B FTW_CONTINUE
-Instructs
-.BR nftw ()
-to continue normally.
-.TP
-.B FTW_SKIP_SIBLINGS
-If \fIfn\fP() returns this value, then
-siblings of the current entry will be skipped,
-and processing continues in the parent.
-.\" If \fBFTW_DEPTH\fP
-.\" is set, the entry's parent directory is processed next (with
-.\" \fIflag\fP set to \fBFTW_DP\fP).
-.TP
-.B FTW_SKIP_SUBTREE
-If \fIfn\fP() is called with an entry that is a directory
-(\fItypeflag\fP is \fBFTW_D\fP), this return
-value will prevent objects within that directory from being passed as
-arguments to \fIfn\fP().
-.BR nftw ()
-continues processing with the next sibling of the directory.
-.TP
-.B FTW_STOP
-Causes
-.BR nftw ()
-to return immediately with the return value
-\fBFTW_STOP\fP.
-.P
-Other return values could be associated with new actions in the future;
-\fIfn\fP() should not return values other than those listed above.
-.P
-The feature test macro
-.B _GNU_SOURCE
-must be defined
-(before including
-.I any
-header files)
-in order to
-obtain the definition of \fBFTW_ACTIONRETVAL\fP from \fI<ftw.h>\fP.
-.RE
-.TP
-.B FTW_CHDIR
-If set, do a
-.BR chdir (2)
-to each directory before handling its contents.
-This is useful if the program needs to perform some action
-in the directory in which \fIfpath\fP resides.
-(Specifying this flag has no effect on the pathname that is passed in the
-.I fpath
-argument of
-.IR fn .)
-.TP
-.B FTW_DEPTH
-If set, do a post-order traversal, that is, call \fIfn\fP() for
-the directory itself \fIafter\fP handling the contents of the directory
-and its subdirectories.
-(By default, each directory is handled \fIbefore\fP its contents.)
-.TP
-.B FTW_MOUNT
-If set, stay within the same filesystem
-(i.e., do not cross mount points).
-.TP
-.B FTW_PHYS
-If set, do not follow symbolic links.
-(This is what you want.)
-If not set, symbolic links are followed, but no file is reported twice.
-.IP
-If \fBFTW_PHYS\fP is not set, but \fBFTW_DEPTH\fP is set,
-then the function
-.IR fn ()
-is never called for a directory that would be a descendant of itself.
-.SS ftw()
-.BR ftw ()
-is an older function that offers a subset of the functionality of
-.BR nftw ().
-The notable differences are as follows:
-.IP \[bu] 3
-.BR ftw ()
-has no
-.I flags
-argument.
-It behaves the same as when
-.BR nftw ()
-is called with
-.I flags
-specified as zero.
-.IP \[bu]
-The callback function,
-.IR fn (),
-is not supplied with a fourth argument.
-.IP \[bu]
-The range of values that is passed via the
-.I typeflag
-argument supplied to
-.IR fn ()
-is smaller: just
-.BR FTW_F ,
-.BR FTW_D ,
-.BR FTW_DNR ,
-.BR FTW_NS ,
-and (possibly)
-.BR FTW_SL .
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-These functions return 0 on success, and \-1 if an error occurs.
-.P
-If \fIfn\fP() returns nonzero,
-then the tree walk is terminated and the value returned by \fIfn\fP()
-is returned as the result of
-.BR ftw ()
-or
-.BR nftw ().
-.P
-If
-.BR nftw ()
-is called with the \fBFTW_ACTIONRETVAL\fP flag,
-then the only nonzero value that should be used by \fIfn\fP()
-to terminate the tree walk is \fBFTW_STOP\fP,
-and that value is returned as the result of
-.BR nftw ().
-.SH ATTRIBUTES
-For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
-.BR attributes (7).
-.TS
-allbox;
-lbx lb lb
-l l l.
-Interface Attribute Value
-T{
-.na
-.nh
-.BR nftw ()
-T} Thread safety MT-Safe cwd
-T{
-.na
-.nh
-.BR ftw ()
-T} Thread safety MT-Safe
-.TE
-.SH VERSIONS
-In some implementations (e.g., glibc),
-.BR ftw ()
-will never use \fBFTW_SL\fP; on other systems \fBFTW_SL\fP occurs only
-for symbolic links that do not point to an existing file;
-and again on other systems
-.BR ftw ()
-will use \fBFTW_SL\fP for each symbolic link.
-If
-.I fpath
-is a symbolic link and
-.BR stat (2)
-failed, POSIX.1-2008 states
-that it is undefined whether \fBFTW_NS\fP or \fBFTW_SL\fP
-is passed in
-.IR typeflag .
-For predictable results, use
-.BR nftw ().
-.SH STANDARDS
-POSIX.1-2008.
-.SH HISTORY
-.TP
-.BR ftw ()
-POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, SUSv1.
-POSIX.1-2008 marks it as obsolete.
-.TP
-.BR nftw ()
-glibc 2.1.
-POSIX.1-2001, SUSv1.
-.TP
-.B FTW_SL
-POSIX.1-2001, SUSv1.
-.SH NOTES
-POSIX.1-2008 notes that the results are unspecified if
-.I fn
-does not preserve the current working directory.
-.SH BUGS
-According to POSIX.1-2008, when the
-.I typeflag
-argument passed to
-.IR fn ()
-contains
-.BR FTW_SLN ,
-the buffer pointed to by
-.I sb
-should contain information about the dangling symbolic link
-(obtained by calling
-.BR lstat (2)
-on the link).
-Early glibc versions correctly followed the POSIX specification on this point.
-However, as a result of a regression introduced in glibc 2.4,
-the contents of the buffer pointed to by
-.I sb
-were undefined when
-.B FTW_SLN
-is passed in
-.IR typeflag .
-(More precisely, the contents of the buffer were left unchanged in this case.)
-This regression was eventually fixed in glibc 2.30,
-.\" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422736
-.\" http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1121
-.\" glibc commit 6ba205b2c35e3e024c8c12d2ee1b73363e84da87
-.\" https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23501
-so that the glibc implementation (once more) follows the POSIX specification.
-.SH EXAMPLES
-The following program traverses the directory tree under the path named
-in its first command-line argument, or under the current directory
-if no argument is supplied.
-It displays various information about each file.
-The second command-line argument can be used to specify characters that
-control the value assigned to the \fIflags\fP
-argument when calling
-.BR nftw ().
-.SS Program source
-\&
-.\" SRC BEGIN (ftw.c)
-.EX
-#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
-#include <ftw.h>
-#include <stdint.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-\&
-static int
-display_info(const char *fpath, const struct stat *sb,
- int tflag, struct FTW *ftwbuf)
-{
- printf("%\-3s %2d ",
- (tflag == FTW_D) ? "d" : (tflag == FTW_DNR) ? "dnr" :
- (tflag == FTW_DP) ? "dp" : (tflag == FTW_F) ? "f" :
- (tflag == FTW_NS) ? "ns" : (tflag == FTW_SL) ? "sl" :
- (tflag == FTW_SLN) ? "sln" : "???",
- ftwbuf\->level);
-\&
- if (tflag == FTW_NS)
- printf("\-\-\-\-\-\-\-");
- else
- printf("%7jd", (intmax_t) sb\->st_size);
-\&
- printf(" %\-40s %d %s\en",
- fpath, ftwbuf\->base, fpath + ftwbuf\->base);
-\&
- return 0; /* To tell nftw() to continue */
-}
-\&
-int
-main(int argc, char *argv[])
-{
- int flags = 0;
-\&
- if (argc > 2 && strchr(argv[2], \[aq]d\[aq]) != NULL)
- flags |= FTW_DEPTH;
- if (argc > 2 && strchr(argv[2], \[aq]p\[aq]) != NULL)
- flags |= FTW_PHYS;
-\&
- if (nftw((argc < 2) ? "." : argv[1], display_info, 20, flags)
- == \-1)
- {
- perror("nftw");
- exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
- }
-\&
- exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
-}
-.EE
-.\" SRC END
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR stat (2),
-.BR fts (3),
-.BR readdir (3)