getfh(2POSIX)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | FEATURES | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ERRORS | HISTORY | ATTRIBUTES

NAME

getfh- get file handle

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>

int getfh(char *path, fhandle_t *fhp);

FEATURES

NFS_SERVER

DESCRIPTION

The getfh function returns a file handle for the specified file or directory into the file handle pointed to by fhp. This system call is restricted to the superuser.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate one of the following error conditions.

ERRORS

[ENOTDIR]

A component of the path prefix of path is not a directory.

[EINVAL]

path contains a character with the high-order bit set.

[ENAMETOOLONG]

The length of a component of path exceeds NAME_MAX characters, or the length of path exceeds PATH_MAX characters.

[ENOENT]

The file referred to by path does not exist.

[EACCES]

Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix of path.

[ELOOP]

Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating path.

[EFAULT]

In user mode,fhp points to an invalid address. In supervisor mode, this is not detected, and the state of the target is unknown.

[EIO]

An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.

HISTORY

The getfh function first appeared in 4.4 BSD.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability	Evolving

ChorusOS 4.0  Last Revised December 1999

NAME | SYNOPSIS | FEATURES | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ERRORS | HISTORY | ATTRIBUTES