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27.\" 4.1, dated 7 September 1989.  It's an old, crufty, and relatively ugly
28.\" manual page, but it does document what appears to be the "traditional"
29.\" libmp interface.
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31.\" $FreeBSD$
32.\"
33.Dd August 28, 2017
34.Dt LIBBE 3
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm libbe
38.Nd library for creating, destroying and modifying ZFS boot environments.
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In be.h
41.Pp
42Function prototypes are given in the main body of the text.
43.Pp
44Applications using this interface must be linked with
45.Fl l Ns Ar be
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47.Pp
48.Nm
49interfaces with libzfs to provide a set of functions for various operations
50regarding ZFS boot environments including "deep" boot environments in which
51a boot environments has child datasets.
52.Pp
53A context structure is passed to each function, allowing for a small amount
54of state to be retained, such as errors from previous operations.
55.\" TODO: describe break on err functionality
56.Pp
57.Ft "libbe_handle_t *" Ns
58.Fn libbe_init "void" ;
59.Pp
60.Ft void
61.Fn libbe_close "libbe_handle_t *" ;
62.Pp
63.Ft "const char *" Ns
64.Fn be_active_name "libbe_handle_t *" ;
65.Pp
66.Ft "const char *" Ns
67.Fn be_active_path "libbe_handle_t *" ;
68.Pp
69.Ft "const char *" Ns
70.Fn be_root_path "libbe_handle_t *" ;
71.Pp
72.Ft "nvlist_t *" Ns
73.Fn  libbe_handle_t "libbe_handle_t " ;
74.Pp
75.Ft int
76.Fn be_create "libbe_handle_t *, char *" ;
77.Pp
78.Ft int
79.Fn be_create_from_existing "libbe_handle_t *, char *, char *" ;
80.Pp
81.Ft int
82.Fn be_rename "libbe_handle_t *, char *, char *" ;
83.Pp
84.\" TODO: Write up of destroy options
85.\" typedef enum {
86.\"	BE_DESTROY_FORCE = 1 << 0,
87.\" } be_destroy_opt_t;
88.Ft int
89.Fn be_destroy "libbe_handle_t *, char *, int" ;
90.Pp
91.\" TODO: Write up of mount options
92.\" typedef enum {
93.\"	BE_MNT_FORCE		= 1 << 0,
94.\"	BE_MNT_DEEP		= 1 << 1,
95.\" } be_mount_opt_t;
96.Ft int
97.Fn be_mount "libbe_handle_t *, char *, char *, int" ;
98.Pp
99.Ft int
100.Fn be_unmount "libbe_handle_t *, char *, int" ;
101.Pp
102.Ft int
103.Fn libbe_errno "libbe_handle_t *" ;
104.Pp
105.Ft "const char *" Ns
106.Fn libbe_error_description "libbe_handle_t *" ;
107.Pp
108.Ft void
109.Fn libbe_print_on_error "libbe_handle_t *, bool" ;
110.Pp
111.Ft int
112.Fn be_root_concat "libbe_handle_t *, char *, char *" ;
113.Pp
114.Ft int
115.Fn be_validate_name "libbe_handle_t *, char *" ;
116.Pp
117.Ft int
118.Fn be_validate_snap "libbe_handle_t *, char *" ;
119.Pp
120.Ft bool
121.Fn be_exists "libbe_handle_t *, char *" ;
122.Pp
123.Ft int
124.Fn be_export "libbe_handle_t *, char *, int fd" ;
125.Pp
126.Ft int
127.Fn be_import "libbe_handle_t *, char *, int fd" ;
128.Pp
129.Ft int
130.Fn be_add_child "libbe_handle_t *, char *, bool" ;
131.Pp
132.\" .Ft void
133.\" .Fn mp_mfree "MINT *mp" ;
134.\" .Bd -ragged -offset indent
135.\" .Fn mp_itom
136.\" returns an
137.\" .Vt MINT
138.\" with the value of
139.\" .Fa n .
140.\" .Fn mp_xtom
141.\" returns an
142.\" .Vt MINT
143.\" with the value of
144.\" .Fa s ,
145.\" which is treated to be in hexadecimal.
146.\" The return values from
147.\" .Fn mp_itom
148.\" and
149.\" .Fn mp_xtom
150.\" must be released with
151.\" .Fn mp_mfree
152.\" when they are no longer needed.
153.\" .Fn mp_mtox
154.\" returns a null-terminated hexadecimal string having the value of
155.\" .Fa mp ;
156.\" its return value must be released with
157.\" .Fn free
158.\" .Pq Xr free 3
159.\" when it is no longer needed.
160.\" .Ed
161.\" .Pp
162.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
163Upon error, one of the following values will be returned.
164.\" TODO: make each entry on its own line.
165.Bd -ragged -offset indent
166BE_ERR_SUCCESS,
167BE_ERR_INVALIDNAME,
168BE_ERR_EXISTS,
169BE_ERR_NOENT,
170BE_ERR_PERMS,
171BE_ERR_DESTROYACT,
172BE_ERR_DESTROYMNT,
173BE_ERR_PATHLEN,
174BE_ERR_INVORIGIN,
175BE_ERR_NOORIGIN,
176BE_ERR_MOUNTED,
177BE_ERR_NOMOUNT,
178BE_ERR_ZFSOPEN,
179BE_ERR_ZFSCLONE,
180BE_ERR_UNKNOWN
181.Ed
182.Sh SEE ALSO
183.Xr be 1 ,
184.Sh HISTORY
185.Nm
186and it's corresponding command,
187.Xr be 3 ,
188were written as a 2017 Google Summer of Code project with Allan Jude serving
189as a mentor.
190.\" TODO: update when implementation complete.
191.\" .Sh BUGS
192
193