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The .Fn fts_open function returns a .Dq handle on a file hierarchy, which is then supplied to the other .Nm functions. The function .Fn fts_read returns a pointer to a structure describing one of the files in the file hierarchy. The function .Fn fts_children returns a pointer to a linked list of structures, each of which describes one of the files contained in a directory within the hierarchy. .Pp In general, directories are visited two distinguishable times; in pre-order (before any of their descendants are visited) and in post-order (after all of their descendants have been visited). Files are visited once. It is possible to walk the hierarchy .Dq logically (following symbolic links) or .Dq physically (not following symbolic links), order the walk of the hierarchy, or prune and/or re-visit portions of the hierarchy. .Pp Two structures are defined (and typedef'd) in the include file .Aq Pa fts.h . The first is .Dv FTS , the structure that represents the file hierarchy itself. The second is .Li FTSENT , the structure that represents a file in the file hierarchy. Normally, an .Li FTSENT structure is returned for every file in the file hierarchy. In this manual page, .Dq file and .Dq Li FTSENT No structure are generally interchangeable. .Pp The .Li FTSENT structure contains at least the following fields, which are described in greater detail below: .Bd -literal typedef struct _ftsent { unsigned short fts_info; /* flags for FTSENT structure */ char *fts_accpath; /* access path */ char *fts_path; /* root path */ size_t fts_pathlen; /* strlen(fts_path) */ char *fts_name; /* file name */ size_t fts_namelen; /* strlen(fts_name) */ short fts_level; /* depth (-1 to N) */ int fts_errno; /* file errno */ long fts_number; /* local numeric value */ void *fts_pointer; /* local address value */ struct _ftsent *fts_parent; /* parent directory */ struct _ftsent *fts_link; /* next file structure */ struct _ftsent *fts_cycle; /* cycle structure */ struct stat *fts_statp; /* stat(2) information */ } FTSENT; .Ed .Pp These fields are defined as follows: .Bl -tag -width "fts_namelen" .It Fa fts_info One of the following flags describing the returned .Li FTSENT structure and the file it represents. With the exception of directories without errors .Pq Dv FTS_D , all of these entries are terminal, that is, they will not be revisited, nor will any of their descendants be visited. .Bl -tag -width FTS_DEFAULT .It Dv FTS_D A directory being visited in pre-order. .It Dv FTS_DC A directory that causes a cycle in the tree. (The .Fa fts_cycle field of the .Li FTSENT structure will be filled in as well.) .It Dv FTS_DEFAULT Any .Li FTSENT structure that represents a file type not explicitly described by one of the other .Fa fts_info values. .It Dv FTS_DNR A directory which cannot be read. This is an error return, and the .Fa fts_errno field will be set to indicate what caused the error. .It Dv FTS_DOT A file named .Dq \&. or .Dq .. which was not specified as a file name to .Fn fts_open (see .Dv FTS_SEEDOT ) . .It Dv FTS_DP A directory being visited in post-order. The contents of the .Li FTSENT structure will be unchanged from when it was returned in pre-order, i.e., with the .Fa fts_info field set to .Dv FTS_D . .It Dv FTS_ERR This is an error return, and the .Fa fts_errno field will be set to indicate what caused the error. .It Dv FTS_F A regular file. .It Dv FTS_NS A file for which no .Xr stat 2 information was available. The contents of the .Fa fts_statp field are undefined. This is an error return, and the .Fa fts_errno field will be set to indicate what caused the error. .It Dv FTS_NSOK A file for which no .Xr stat 2 information was requested. The contents of the .Fa fts_statp field are undefined. .It Dv FTS_SL A symbolic link. .It Dv FTS_SLNONE A symbolic link with a non-existent target. The contents of the .Fa fts_statp field reference the file characteristic information for the symbolic link itself. .El .It Fa fts_accpath A path for accessing the file from the current directory. .It Fa fts_path The path for the file relative to the root of the traversal. This path contains the path specified to .Fn fts_open as a prefix. .It Fa fts_pathlen The length of the string referenced by .Fa fts_path . .It Fa fts_name The name of the file. .It Fa fts_namelen The length of the string referenced by .Fa fts_name . .It Fa fts_level The depth of the traversal, numbered from \-1 to N, where this file was found. The .Li FTSENT structure representing the parent of the starting point (or root) of the traversal is numbered .Ev FTS_PARENTLEVEL (\-1), and the .Li FTSENT structure for the root itself is numbered .Ev FTS_ROOTLEVEL (0). Note that while .Fa fts_level cannot hold a number of levels greater than .Ev FTS_MAXLEVEL , the .Nm functions themselves are not limited to a fixed number of levels. Application code that inspects .Fa fts_level should be written with this in mind. .It Fa fts_errno Upon return of an .Li FTSENT structure from the .Fn fts_children or .Fn fts_read functions, with its .Fa fts_info field set to .Dv FTS_DNR , .Dv FTS_ERR or .Dv FTS_NS , the .Fa fts_errno field contains the value of the external variable .Va errno specifying the cause of the error. Otherwise, the contents of the .Fa fts_errno field are undefined. .It Fa fts_number This field is provided for the use of the application program and is not modified by the .Nm functions. It is initialized to 0. .It Fa fts_pointer This field is provided for the use of the application program and is not modified by the .Nm functions. It is initialized to .Dv NULL . .It Fa fts_parent A pointer to the .Li FTSENT structure referencing the file in the hierarchy immediately above the current file, i.e., the directory of which this file is a member. A parent structure for the initial entry point is provided as well, however, only the .Fa fts_level , .Fa fts_number and .Fa fts_pointer fields are guaranteed to be initialized. .It Fa fts_link Upon return from the .Fn fts_children function, the .Fa fts_link field points to the next structure in the null-terminated linked list of directory members. Otherwise, the contents of the .Fa fts_link field are undefined. .It Fa fts_cycle If a directory causes a cycle in the hierarchy (see .Dv FTS_DC ) , either because of a hard link between two directories, or a symbolic link pointing to a directory, the .Fa fts_cycle field of the structure will point to the .Li FTSENT structure in the hierarchy that references the same file as the current .Li FTSENT structure. Otherwise, the contents of the .Fa fts_cycle field are undefined. .It Fa fts_statp A pointer to .Xr stat 2 information for the file. .El .Pp A single buffer is used for all of the paths of all of the files in the file hierarchy. Therefore, the .Fa fts_path and .Fa fts_accpath fields are guaranteed to be NUL terminated .Em only for the file most recently returned by .Fn fts_read . To use these fields to reference any files represented by other .Li FTSENT structures will require that the path buffer be modified using the information contained in that .Li FTSENT structure's .Fa fts_pathlen field. Any such modifications should be undone before further calls to .Fn fts_read are attempted. The .Fa fts_name field is always NUL terminated. .Ss FTS_OPEN The .Fn fts_open function takes a pointer to an array of character pointers naming one or more paths which make up a logical file hierarchy to be traversed. The array must be terminated by a null pointer. .Pp There are a number of options, at least one of which (either .Dv FTS_LOGICAL or .Dv FTS_PHYSICAL ) must be specified. The .Fa options are selected by .Tn OR Ns 'ing the following values: .Bl -tag -width "FTS_PHYSICAL" .It Dv FTS_COMFOLLOW This option causes any symbolic link specified as a root path to be followed immediately whether or not .Dv FTS_LOGICAL is also specified. .It Dv FTS_LOGICAL This option causes the .Nm routines to return .Li FTSENT structures for the targets of symbolic links instead of the symbolic links themselves. If this option is set, the only symbolic links for which .Li FTSENT structures are returned to the application are those referencing non-existent files. Either .Dv FTS_LOGICAL or .Dv FTS_PHYSICAL .Em must be provided to the .Fn fts_open function. .It Dv FTS_NOCHDIR As a performance optimization, the .Nm functions change directories as they walk the file hierarchy. This has the side-effect that an application cannot rely on being in any particular directory during the traversal. The .Dv FTS_NOCHDIR option turns off this optimization, and the .Nm functions will not change the current directory. Note that applications should not themselves change their current directory and try to access files unless .Dv FTS_NOCHDIR is specified and absolute pathnames were provided as arguments to .Fn fts_open . .It Dv FTS_NOSTAT By default, returned .Li FTSENT structures reference file characteristic information (the .Fa statp field) for each file visited. This option relaxes that requirement as a performance optimization, allowing the .Nm functions to set the .Fa fts_info field to .Dv FTS_NSOK and leave the contents of the .Fa statp field undefined. .It Dv FTS_PHYSICAL This option causes the .Nm routines to return .Li FTSENT structures for symbolic links themselves instead of the target files they point to. If this option is set, .Li FTSENT structures for all symbolic links in the hierarchy are returned to the application. Either .Dv FTS_LOGICAL or .Dv FTS_PHYSICAL .Em must be provided to the .Fn fts_open function. .It Dv FTS_SEEDOT By default, unless they are specified as path arguments to .Fn fts_open , any files named .Dq \&. or .Dq .. encountered in the file hierarchy are ignored. This option causes the .Nm routines to return .Li FTSENT structures for them. .It Dv FTS_XDEV This option prevents .Nm from descending into directories that have a different device number than the file from which the descent began. .El .Pp The .Fa compar argument specifies a user-defined function which may be used to order the traversal of the hierarchy. It takes two pointers to pointers to .Li FTSENT structures as arguments and should return a negative value, zero, or a positive value to indicate if the file referenced by its first argument comes before, in any order with respect to, or after, the file referenced by its second argument. The .Fa fts_accpath , .Fa fts_path and .Fa fts_pathlen fields of the .Li FTSENT structures may .Em never be used in this comparison. If the .Fa fts_info field is set to .Dv FTS_NS or .Dv FTS_NSOK , the .Fa fts_statp field may not either. If the .Fa compar argument is .Dv NULL , the directory traversal order is in the order listed in .Fa path_argv for the root paths, and in the order listed in the directory for everything else. .Pp If an error occurs, .Fn fts_open returns .Dv NULL and sets .Va errno appropriately. .Ss FTS_READ The .Fn fts_read function returns a pointer to an .Li FTSENT structure describing a file in the hierarchy. Directories (that are readable and do not cause cycles) are visited at least twice, once in pre-order and once in post-order. All other files are visited at least once. (Hard links between directories that do not cause cycles or symbolic links to symbolic links may cause files to be visited more than once, or directories more than twice.) .Pp If all the members of the hierarchy have been returned, .Fn fts_read returns .Dv NULL and sets the external variable .Va errno to 0. If an error unrelated to a file in the hierarchy occurs, .Fn fts_read returns .Dv NULL and sets .Va errno appropriately. If an error related to a returned file occurs, a pointer to an .Li FTSENT structure is returned, and .Va errno may or may not have been set (see .Fa fts_info ) . .Pp The .Li FTSENT structures returned by .Fn fts_read may be overwritten after a call to .Fn fts_close on the same file hierarchy stream, or, after a call to .Fn fts_read on the same file hierarchy stream unless they represent a file of type directory, in which case they will not be overwritten until after a call to .Fn fts_read after the .Li FTSENT structure has been returned by the function .Fn fts_read in post-order. .Ss FTS_CHILDREN The .Fn fts_children function returns a pointer to an .Li FTSENT structure describing the first entry in a null-terminated linked list of the files in the directory represented by the .Li FTSENT structure most recently returned by .Fn fts_read . The list is linked through the .Fa fts_link field of the .Li FTSENT structure, and is ordered by the user-specified comparison function, if any. Repeated calls to .Fn fts_children will recreate this linked list. .Pp As a special case, if .Fn fts_read has not yet been called for a hierarchy, .Fn fts_children will return a pointer to the files in the logical directory specified to .Fn fts_open , i.e., the arguments specified to .Fn fts_open . Otherwise, if the .Li FTSENT structure most recently returned by .Fn fts_read is not a directory being visited in pre-order, or the directory does not contain any files, .Fn fts_children returns .Dv NULL and sets .Va errno to 0. If an error occurs, .Fn fts_children returns .Dv NULL and sets .Va errno appropriately. .Pp The .Li FTSENT structures returned by .Fn fts_children may be overwritten after a call to .Fn fts_children , .Fn fts_close or .Fn fts_read on the same file hierarchy stream. .Pp .Fa options may be set to the following value: .Bl -tag -width FTS_NAMEONLY .It Dv FTS_NAMEONLY Only the names of the files are needed. The contents of all the fields in the returned linked list of structures are undefined with the exception of the .Fa fts_name and .Fa fts_namelen fields. .El .Ss FTS_SET The function .Fn fts_set allows the user application to determine further processing for the file .Fa f of the stream .Fa ftsp . The .Fn fts_set function returns 0 on success or \-1 if an error occurred. .Fa option must be set to one of the following values: .Bl -tag -width FTS_PHYSICAL .It Dv FTS_AGAIN Re-visit the file; any file type may be re-visited. The next call to .Fn fts_read will return the referenced file. The .Fa fts_stat and .Fa fts_info fields of the structure will be reinitialized at that time, but no other fields will have been changed. This option is meaningful only for the most recently returned file from .Fn fts_read . Normal use is for post-order directory visits, where it causes the directory to be re-visited (in both pre and post-order) as well as all of its descendants. .It Dv FTS_FOLLOW The referenced file must be a symbolic link. If the referenced file is the one most recently returned by .Fn fts_read , the next call to .Fn fts_read returns the file with the .Fa fts_info and .Fa fts_statp fields reinitialized to reflect the target of the symbolic link instead of the symbolic link itself. If the file is one of those most recently returned by .Fn fts_children , the .Fa fts_info and .Fa fts_statp fields of the structure, when returned by .Fn fts_read , will reflect the target of the symbolic link instead of the symbolic link itself. In either case if the target of the symbolic link does not exist, the fields of the returned structure will be unchanged and the .Fa fts_info field will be set to .Dv FTS_SLNONE . .Pp If the target of the link is a directory, the pre-order return, followed by the return of all of its descendants, followed by a post-order return, is done. .It Dv FTS_SKIP No descendants of this file are visited. The file may be one of those most recently returned by either .Fn fts_children or .Fn fts_read . .El .Ss FTS_CLOSE The .Fn fts_close function closes a file hierarchy stream .Fa ftsp and restores the current directory to the directory from which .Fn fts_open was called to open .Fa ftsp . The .Fn fts_close function returns 0 on success or \-1 if an error occurred. .Sh ERRORS The function .Fn fts_open may fail and set .Va errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions .Xr open 2 and .Xr malloc 3 . .Pp The function .Fn fts_close may fail and set .Va errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions .Xr chdir 2 and .Xr close 2 . .Pp The functions .Fn fts_read and .Fn fts_children may fail and set .Va errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions .Xr chdir 2 , .Xr malloc 3 , .Xr opendir 3 , .Xr readdir 3 and .Xr stat 2 . .Pp In addition, .Fn fts_children , .Fn fts_open and .Fn fts_set may fail and set .Va errno as follows: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The specified option is invalid. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr find 1 , .Xr chdir 2 , .Xr stat 2 , .Xr qsort 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm API is expected to be included in a future .St -p1003.1-88 revision. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm functions first appeared in .Bx 4.3 Reno . The interface was revised in .Bx 4.4 .