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diff --git a/include/util.h b/include/util.h
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+++ b/include/util.h
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 #include <sys/types.h>
 
+/**
+ * @brief Turn a file path to a more usefull form
+ *
+ * Removes all preceeding and trailing slashes, shortens all sequences of
+ * slashes to a single slash and returns failure state if one of the path
+ * components is '..' or '.'.
+ *
+ * @param filename A pointer to the path to work on
+ *
+ * @return Zero on success, -1 on failure
+ */
 int canonicalize_name(char *filename);
 
+/**
+ * @brief Write data to a file
+ *
+ * This is a wrapper around the Unix write() system call. It retries the write
+ * if it is interrupted by a signal or only part of the data was written.
+ */
 ssize_t write_retry(int fd, void *data, size_t size);
 
+/**
+ * @brief Read data from a file
+ *
+ * This is a wrapper around the Unix read() system call. It retries the read
+ * if it is interrupted by a signal or less than the desired size was read.
+ */
 ssize_t read_retry(int fd, void *buffer, size_t size);
 
+/**
+ * @brief A common implementation of the '--version' command line argument
+ *
+ * Prints out version information. The program name is extracted from the
+ * BSD style __progname global variable.
+ */
 void print_version(void);
 
+/**
+ * @brief Create a directory and all its parents
+ *
+ * This is a wrapper around mkdir() that behaves like 'mkdir -p'. It tries to
+ * create every component of the given path and treats already existing entries
+ * as success.
+ *
+ * @param path A path to create
+ *
+ * @return Zero on success, -1 on failure
+ */
 int mkdir_p(const char *path);
 
 #endif /* UTIL_H */