NAME

       gd_flags — alter GetData operational flags

SYNOPSIS

       #include <getdata.h>

       unsigned long gd_flags(DIRFILE *dirfile, unsigned long set, unsigned long reset);

DESCRIPTION

       The  gd_flags()  function modifies the operational flags of the dirfile(5) database specified by dirfile,
       and returns the new value of the flags register.

       The flags which may be queried or modified with this interface are  a  subset  of  the  open  flags  (see
       gd_cbopen(3)).  These are:

       GD_PRETTY_PRINT
               When   dirfile   metadata   are   flushed   to   disk  (either  explicitly  via  gd_metaflush(3),
               gd_rewrite_fragment(3), or gd_flush(3) or implicitly by closing the dirfile), an attempt will  be
               made  to  create  a  nicer looking format specification (from a human-readable standpoint).  What
               this explicitly means is not part of the API, and any particular behaviour should not  be  relied
               on.  If the dirfile has been opened read-only, this flag is ignored.

       GD_VERBOSE
               Specifies  that  whenever  an error is triggered by the library when working on this dirfile, the
               corresponding error string, which can be  retrieved  by  calling  gd_error_string(3),  should  be
               written  on  the  caller's standard error stream (stderr(3)) by GetData.  The error string may be
               prefixed by a string specified by the  caller;  see  gd_verbose_prefix(3).   Without  this  flag,
               GetData writes nothing to standard error.  (GetData never writes to standard output.)

       Flags  which  appear  only  in  set will be turned on (enabled); flags which appear only in reset will be
       turned off (disabled); flags which appear in both set and reset will be toggled.  Flags which  appear  in
       neither  of these are left unchanged.  Accordingly, to simply query the current flags, both set and reset
       should be zero, and to explicitly specify all the  flags,  ignoring  their  old  values,  the  new  flags
       register should be given in set, and it's bitwise complement in reset.

RETURN VALUE

       The  gd_flags()  function  returns  a  bitwise or'd collection those of the above flags which are enabled
       after performing the modifications specified (if any).  This function does not fail.

HISTORY

       The gd_flags() function appeared in GetData-0.8.0.

SEE ALSO

       gd_open(3), gd_verbose_prefix(3), dirfile(5)