QUOTACTL(2) MachTen Programmer’s Manual QUOTACTL(2)

NAME
quotactl - manipulate filesystem quotas

SYNOPSIS
#include <ufs/quota.h> /* for ufs quotas */ 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 ‘‘ufs’’ filesystem. For
‘‘ufs’’, a command is composed of a primary command (see below) and a
command type used to interpret the id. Types are supported for interpre-
tation of user identifiers and group identifiers. The ‘‘ufs’’ 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 quo-
tas. The quota file must exist; it is normally created with
the quotacheck(8) program. The id argument is unused. Only
the super-user 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 super-user 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 (defined in
<ufs/quota.h>).

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 (defined in <ufs/quota.h>). The usage
fields of the dqblk structure are ignored. This call is re-
stricted to the super-user.

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 (defined in <ufs/quota.h>). Only the
usage fields are used. This call is restricted to the super-
user.

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.

[EINVAL] A pathname contains a character with the high-order bit
set.

[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 either pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or the entire length of either path name exceeded 1023
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 super-
user.

SEE ALSO
quota(1), fstab(5), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquo-
ta(8)

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

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

4.4BSD June 4, 1993 2