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Files and Directories

Files and Directories. File types stat functions for file information File permissions suid and sgid Sticky bit Hard link and soft link Directory operations Device special files File system. File Types. Regular file Directory file Character special file (unbuffered I/O access)

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Files and Directories

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  1. Files and Directories • File types • stat functions for file information • File permissions • suid and sgid • Sticky bit • Hard link and soft link • Directory operations • Device special files • File system

  2. File Types • Regular file • Directory file • Character special file (unbuffered I/O access) • Block special file (buffered I/O) • Named Pipe (a type of IPC) - FIFO • Socket (a network form of IPC) • Symbolic Link (a file that just points to another file)

  3. stat, fstat and lstat int stat(const char *path, struct stat *buf); int fstat(int filedes, struct stat *buf); int lstat(const char *path, struct stat *buf); • All three return 0 on success or -1 on failure • All three set buf to point to a structure of information • stat get info about the file • fstat gets info about an already open file • lstat same as stat but if given a symbolic link will get info about the link instead of what the link points to

  4. Definition on page 88 st_mode st_ino st_dev st_rdev st_nlink st_uid st_gid st_size st_blocks st_blksize st_atime st_mtime st_ctime stat structure

  5. Determining the type of a file • Set of macros defined in <sys/stat.h> can be used. • They all accept the st_mode field of the stat struct as their only parameter • S_ISREG(mode_t mode) • S_ISDIR(mode_t mode) • S_ISCHR(mode_t mode) • S_ISBLK(mode_t mode) • S_ISFIFO(mode_t mode) • S_ISLNK(mode_t mode) • S_ISSOCK(mode_t mode)

  6. Set-User-ID & Set-Group-ID • Every process has 6 or more IDs • Real user ID • Real group ID • Effective user ID • Effective group ID • Supplementary group IDs • Saved set-user-ID • Saved set-group-ID

  7. Set-User-ID & Set-Group-ID • Normally, effective IDs are the same as real user IDs • Sometimes, we need to run a process with the permissions of the user or group that owns the file (ex: passwd) • Two bits in the file’s mode word (st_mode) allow this. • set-user-ID bit • set-group-ID bit

  8. Set-User-ID & Set-Group-ID • When creating a file with the creat function, the new file’s UID is the effective UID of the process, and the new file’s GID is the effective GID of the process

  9. Checking set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits • Can use S_ISUID and S_ISGID masks Ex: if(S_ISUID & st_mode) if(S_ISGID & st_mode)

  10. Setting SUID and GUID • SUID has a value of 4 • GUID has a value of 2 chmod 4755 afile -rwsr-xr-x chmod 2755 afile -rwxr-sr-x chmod 6755 afile -rwsr-sr-x

  11. File access permissions • Read section 4.5 on page 92. Note the different permissions required for operations on regular files versus directories

  12. access function • Tests to see if the real user ID and real group ID allow access to a file • Useful if a program that may be running as another user (ex root) wants to be sure that the person that started the program has permissions to access some file int access(const char *pathname, int mode); • Returns 0 if ok, -1 otherwise

  13. access function (cont) • In this context, mode is not the same as in previous functions. Here, mode is the bitwise OR of several constants • R_OK - test for read permission • W_OK - test for write permission • X_OK - test for execute permission • F_OK - test for file existence

  14. umask function mode_t umask(mode_t mask); • Sets the “file mode creation mask” • “file mode creation mask” is used to specify the default permissions of newly created files • Since we are dealing with a mask it is the complement of what we want. So we set the bits corresponding to the permissions we don’t want.

  15. umask function • When using open or creat, any bits in mode that are also set in the file creation mask are turned off. • All the UNIX shells also define a shell command called umask that displays the default umask set at login. Each process can change its own mask without interfering with each other

  16. File Size • st_size member of stat structure holds the size of a file • Only meaningful for regular files, directories and symbolic links • Regular file – number of bytes in the file • Directories – multiple of a number (more on this later) • Symbolic Links – number of chars in filename

  17. Sticky Bit • Historically • Used to tell the system to keep a copy of the “text” portion of a program in the swap space even after the program exits. (text = instructions, not data) • Swap file is contiguous  faster start on next execution.

  18. Sticky Bit • Currently • Used on directories, indicates that in order to rename or delete a file in that directory a user must both have write permissions to the directory and one of the following must be true • User owns the file • User owns the directory • User is the superuser • To set the sticky bit • chmod +t mydir

  19. chmod and fchmod • Allows us to change the existing permissions for a file int chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode); int fchmod(int fildes, mode_t mode); • Returns 0 on success or -1 on failure • mode is bitwise OR of constants shown on page 99 fig 4.11 • Effective UID of process must be the same as the UID of the file or the process must have superuser permissions

  20. link, unlink, remove and rename • linkint link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath); • Creates a new hard link within the file system • oldpath is the file to be linked. Newpath must already exist except for the last portion which will be created • If all of newpath already exists, an error will be returned • Returns 0 if ok, -1 otherwise

  21. link, unlink, remove and rename • unlinkint unlink(const char *pathname); • Removes directory entry indicated by pathname • Decrements the link count of the file • Must have write and execute on containing directory • Only when link count reaches 0 and no process has the file open will it be deleted

  22. link, unlink, remove and rename • removeint remove(const char *pathname); • Calls unlink for files and rmdir for directories • renameint rename(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath); • Equivelant to mv shell command

  23. Symbolic Links • Indirect pointer to a file or directory • Created to get around limitations of hard links • Hard links must live in the same file system that the think it links to is in • Only superuser can hard link to a directory

  24. symlink and readlink • symlinkint symlink(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath); • Creates the symbolic link file newpath that contains the text contained in oldpath • oldpath and newpath may be on different file systems • readlinkssize_t readlink(const char *path, char *buf, size_t bufsiz); • open function follows symbolic links. readlink operates on the link file itself • String from file placed in buf, with number of bytes in bufsiz. String is not null terminated

  25. File Times • 3 times are kept for any file • Last access time • Last modified time • Last status change time • These are stored in the following fields of the stat struct • st_atime • st_mtime • st_ctime

  26. utime int utime(const char *filename, const struct utimbuf *buf); struct utimbuf { time_t actime; time_t modtime; } • actime and modtime are calendar times marking seconds since Epoch • buf may be NULL, in which case the time is updated to current system time • Unless using NULL for buf, just having write permissions is not enough. Effective user ID must equal owner ID or process must have superuser privileges

  27. Directory Operations • mkdir and rmdirint mkdir(const char *pathname, mode_t mode);int rmdir(const char *pathname); • Create and remove the specified directory • For mkdir, the mode parameter is the same as those used for open. However, recall that interactions with the umask may occur! • When creating directories, remember that we usually want execute permissions so that the files within the directory can be listed

  28. Reading Directories DIR *opendir(const char *name); struct dirent *readdir(DIR *dir); void rewinddir(DIR *dir); int closedir(DIR *dir); off_t telldir(DIR *dir); void seekdir(DIR *dir, off_t offset); struct dirent { ino_t d_ino; char d_name[NAME_MAX + 1]; }

  29. chdir fchdir and getcwd int chdir(const char *path); int fchdir(int fd); • Change the current working directory of the process long getcwd(char *buf, unsigned long size); • Get the current working directory of the process

  30. Device Special Files • Many devices are represented as files within /dev directory • Each device has major number and minor number for the Kernel to identify it • Major number usually specifies the driver to use for the device • Minor number may be the specific sub device or options for that device

  31. Device Special Files • ls –lL on a device file will show major and minor numbers instead of size of file • st_dev and st_rdev • st_dev for every file is the device number under the filesystem containing that filename and its associated i-node • st_rdev (only for character and block special files) contains actual device number

  32. Device Special Files • Obtaining the major and minor numbers • Use the major and minor macros • major(st_dev) • minor(st_dev) • For block and character special devices use st_rdev instead to obtain real device number

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