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+.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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+.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+.\" without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" @(#)chflags.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 9, 1993
+.Dt CHFLAGS 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm chflags ,
+.Nm fchflags
+.Nd set file flags
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/stat.h>
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn chflags "const char *path" "u_long flags"
+.Ft int
+.Fn fchflags "int fd" "u_long flags"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The file whose name
+is given by
+.Fa path
+or referenced by the descriptor
+.Fa fd
+has its flags changed to
+.Fa flags .
+.Pp
+The flags specified are formed by
+.Em or Ns 'ing
+the following values
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "SF_IMMUTABLE" -compact -offset indent
+.It UF_NODUMP
+Do not dump the file.
+.It UF_IMMUTABLE
+The file may not be changed.
+.It UF_APPEND
+The file may only be appended to.
+.\".It ARCHIVED
+.\"File is archived.
+.It SF_IMMUTABLE
+The file may not be changed.
+.It SF_APPEND
+The file may only be appended to.
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Dq UF_IMMUTABLE
+and
+.Dq UF_APPEND
+flags may be set or unset by either the owner of a file or the super-user.
+.Pp
+The
+.Dq SF_IMMUTABLE
+and
+.Dq SF_APPEND
+flags may only be set or unset by the super-user.
+They may be set at any time, but normally may only be unset when
+the system is in single-user mode.
+(See
+.Xr init 8
+for details.)
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
+Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn Chflags
+will fail it:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
+A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
+.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
+A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
+or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
+.It Bq Er ENOENT
+The named file does not exist.
+.It Bq Er EACCES
+Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
+.It Bq Er ELOOP
+Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and
+the effective user ID is not the super-user.
+.It Bq Er EROFS
+The named file resides on a read-only file system.
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+.Fa Path
+points outside the process's allocated address space.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+An
+.Tn I/O
+error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
+.El
+.Pp
+.Fn Fchflags
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EBADF
+The descriptor is not valid.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa Fd
+refers to a socket, not to a file.
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and
+the effective user ID is not the super-user.
+.It Bq Er EROFS
+The file resides on a read-only file system.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+An
+.Tn I/O
+error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr chflags 1,
+.Xr init 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm chflags
+and
+.Nm fchflags
+functions first appeared in 4.4BSD.
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