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QUOTACTL(2)		  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual		   QUOTACTL(2)

NAME
     quotactl - manipulate filesystem quotas

SYNOPSIS
     #include <ufs/ufs/quota.h>	   /* for ufs quotas */
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     quotactl(const char *path, int cmd, int id, char *addr);

DESCRIPTION
     The quotactl() call enables, disables and manipulates filesystem quotas.
     A quota control command given by cmd operates on the given filename path
     for the given user id.  The address of an optional command specific data
     structure, addr, may be given; its interpretation is discussed below with
     each command.

     Currently quotas are supported only for the ``ffs'' filesystem.  For
     ``ffs'', a command is composed of a primary command (see below) and a
     command type used to interpret the id.  Types are supported for
     interpretation of user identifiers and group identifiers.	The ``ffs''
     specific commands are:

     Q_QUOTAON	Enable disk quotas for the filesystem specified by path.  The
		command type specifies the type of the quotas being enabled.
		The addr argument specifies a file from which to take the
		quotas.	 The quota file must exist; it is normally created
		with the quotacheck(8) program.	 The id argument is unused.
		Only the superuser may turn quotas on.

     Q_QUOTAOFF
		Disable disk quotas for the filesystem specified by path.  The
		command type specifies the type of the quotas being disabled.
		The addr and id arguments are unused.  Only the superuser may
		turn quotas off.

     Q_GETQUOTA
		Get disk quota limits and current usage for the user or group
		(as determined by the command type) with identifier id.	 addr
		is a pointer to a struct dqblk structure.

     Q_SETQUOTA
		Set disk quota limits for the user or group (as determined by
		the command type) with identifier id.  addr is a pointer to a
		struct dqblk structure.	 The usage fields of struct dqblk
		structure are ignored.	This call is restricted to the
		superuser.

     Q_SETUSE	Set disk usage limits for the user or group (as determined by
		the command type) with identifier id.  addr is a pointer to a
		struct dqblk structure.	 Only the usage fields are used.  This
		call is restricted to the superuser.

     Q_SYNC	Update the on-disk copy of quota usages.  The command type
		specifies which type of quotas are to be updated.  The id and
		addr parameters are ignored.

RETURN VALUES
     A successful call returns 0, otherwise the value -1 is returned and the
     global variable errno indicates the reason for the failure.

ERRORS
     A quotactl() call will fail if:

     [EOPNOTSUPP]  The kernel has not been compiled with the QUOTA option.

     [EUSERS]	   The quota table cannot be expanded.

     [EINVAL]	   cmd or the command type is invalid.

     [EACCES]	   In Q_QUOTAON, the quota file is not a plain file.

     [EACCES]	   Search permission is denied for a component of a path
		   prefix.

     [ENOTDIR]	   A component of a path prefix was not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]
		   A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters,
		   or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters.

     [ENOENT]	   A filename does not exist.

     [ELOOP]	   Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating a
		   pathname.

     [EROFS]	   In Q_QUOTAON, the quota file resides on a read-only
		   filesystem.

     [EIO]	   An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to a
		   file containing quotas.

     [EFAULT]	   An invalid addr was supplied; the associated structure
		   could not be copied in or out of the kernel.

     [EFAULT]	   path points outside the process's allocated address space.

     [EPERM]	   The call was privileged and the caller was not the
		   superuser.

SEE ALSO
     quota(1), fstab(5), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)

HISTORY
     The quotactl() function call appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

BUGS
     There should be some way to integrate this call with the resource limit
     interface provided by setrlimit(2) and getrlimit(2).

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9
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