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Most of the API functions return 1 if successful or -1 on error.
The close function is an exception since it returns 0 if successful or -1 on error.
More details about the return values for each API function can be found in libbde.h
The following examples require the following headers to be included:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <libbde.h>
libbde_error_t *error = NULL;
libbde_volume_t *volume = NULL;
if( libbde_volume_initialize(&volume, &error) != 1 )
{
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to initialize volume.\n");
libbde_error_free(&error);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
When calling the libbde_volume_initialize function the volume argument must refer to NULL to allocate and initialize a volume structure. The error argument is optional and can be NULL.
The function will return 1 if successful or -1 on error. On error an the library creates an error structure except if error is NULL e.g.
libbde_volume_initialize(&volume, NULL);
The error structure must be freed by calling the libbde_error_free function.
if( libbde_volume_free(&volume, &error) != 1 )
{
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to free volume.\n");
libbde_error_free(&error);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
The function will return 1 if successful or -1 on error. File is set to NULL. The function will also close the volume if it was opened.
filename = "image.raw";
if( libbde_volume_open(volume, filename, LIBBDE_OPEN_READ, &error) != 1 )
{
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open volume.\n" );
libbde_volume_free(&volume, NULL);
libbde_error_free(&error);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
libbde provides both narrow and wide character string functions for filenames. The wide character equivalent of the open function is libbde_volume_open_wide. By default libbde will only enable wide character string support on Windows since other operating systems have build-in support for UTF-8 narrow character strings.
To compile with wide character support add --enable-wide-character-type=yes to configure, e.g.:
./configure --enable-wide-character-type=yes
Or on Windows define WINAPI and either _UNICODE
or UNICODE
When wide character string support is enabled LIBBDE_HAVE_WIDE_CHARACTER_TYPE is defined in <libbde/features.h>
TODO describe
libbde allows to be compiled with file-like object support using libbfio. The libbde configure script will automatically detect if a compatible version of libbfio is available.
When libbfio is support is enabled LIBBDE_HAVE_BFIO is defined in <libbde/features.h>
if( libbde_volume_close(volume, &error) != 0 )
{
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to close volume.\n" );
libbde_volume_free(&volume, NULL);
libbde_error_free(&error);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
- libbde.h
- man 3 libbde