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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man3/libufs.3 b/static/freebsd/man3/libufs.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aa3386ad --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man3/libufs.3 @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +.\" Author: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> +.\" Date: June 04, 2003 +.\" Description: +.\" Manual page for libufs. +.\" +.\" This file is in the public domain. +.\" +.Dd September 2, 2020 +.Dt LIBUFS 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm libufs +.Nd operate on UFS file systems from userland +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libufs +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/param.h +.In sys/mount.h +.In ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h +.In ufs/ufs/dinode.h +.In ufs/ffs/fs.h +.In libufs.h +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +library and the functions it provides are used for implementing +utilities which need to access a UFS file system at a low level from +userland. +Facilities provided are used to implement utilities such as +.Xr newfs 8 +and +.Xr dumpfs 8 . +The +.Nm +library is designed to be simple, and to provide functions that are +traditionally useful to have. +.Pp +A disk is represented as the type +.Vt "struct uufsd" +as defined in +.In libufs.h . +The structure is filled out, operations are performed, and the disk +is closed. +.Sh ERRORS +Functions provided by +.Nm +return \-1 in every functional error situation. +They also set the +.Va d_error +field of +.Vt "struct uufsd" +to a string describing the error. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr berase 3 , +.Xr bread 3 , +.Xr bwrite 3 , +.Xr cgget 3 , +.Xr cgput 3 , +.Xr cgread 3 , +.Xr cgread1 3 , +.Xr cgwrite 3 , +.Xr cgwrite1 3 , +.Xr getinode 3 , +.Xr putinode 3 , +.Xr sbget 3 , +.Xr sbput 3 , +.Xr sbread 3 , +.Xr sbwrite 3 , +.Xr ufs_disk_close 3 , +.Xr ufs_disk_fillout 3 , +.Xr ufs_disk_fillout_blank 3 , +.Xr ufs_disk_write 3 , +.Xr ffs 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Xr libufs 3 +library first appeared in +.Fx 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Juli Mallett Aq Mt jmallett@FreeBSD.org +.An Marshall Kirk McKusick Aq Mt mckusick@FreeBSD.org +.Pp +.An -nosplit +Additional design, feedback, and ideas were provided by +.An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq Mt phk@FreeBSD.org . |
