ProFTPD Developer's Guide: Using the Quotatab Module

ProFTPD Version 1.2


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Other modules may wish to obtain from and make use of the quota information, both of limits and current tallies, from the mod_quotatab module. There are three main functions available for such uses, detailed below. These functions are declared in mod_quotatab.h.

To look up a quota entry from either a limit or tally table, use the following function:

  unsigned char quotatab_lookup(quota_tabtype_t tab_type, const char *name, quota_type_t quota_type);
This will search the configured table of the given type tab_type for a quota entry that matches both the given name and quota_type. Note, though, that it will only find the first occurrence of a matching entry in the table. This means that if there is a malformed quota table, with duplicate name/type pairs, the duplicates will be ignored. If TRUE returned, a match was found and the information was read from the table and stored into the appropriate structure (i.e. into quotatab_limit if tab_type indicated a limit table, into quotatab_tally if tab_type signalled a tally table). Otherwise, a return value of FALSE indicates that no matching entry was found in the table.

For obtaining the current quota tallies for a session, use this function:

  int quotatab_read(void);
This function automatically reads the configured tally table for the quota tallies of the current client. On success, a value of 0 will be returned and the requested data will be stored in the quotatab_tally quota_tally_t structure. If an error occurred during the read, -1 will be returned, with errno set appropriately.

For writing out the quota information currently stored in the quotatab_tally quota_tally_t structure:

  int quotatab_write(double bytes_in, double bytes_out, double bytes_xfer,
    unsigned long files_in, unsigned long files_out, unsigned long files_xfer);
The parameters indicate the change in tallies due to the most recent data input/output command (e.g.
APPE, RETR, STOR, or STOU). Writes performed via this function are only ever done on the tally table. It will return a value of 0 if the tally table was updated without incident, or -1 (with errno set appropriately) if there was an error.

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