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The NFS_CLIENT feature provides POSIX-compatible file I/O system calls on top of the NFS file system. It provides only the client side implementation of the protocol, and thus requires a host system to provide the server side implementation of the NFS protocol. The NFS_CLIENT feature can be configured to run on top of either Ethernet or PPP or SLIP. The NFS_CLIENT requires the POSIX_SOCKETS feature to be configured.
The NFS_CLIENT feature API is summarized in the following table. For general information on the API provided by this feature, see intro(2POSIX), and the POSIX standard (IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993). Note that some of the calls listed are also included in other features.
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Check access permissions.
Change current directory.
Change access mode.
Change owner.
Change root directory.
Close a file descriptor.
Duplicate an open file descriptor.
File control.
Apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file.
Get configurable pathname variables.
Synchronize a file's in-core stats with that on disk.
Get directory entries in a file system independent format.
Get list of all mounted file systems.
Device control.
Make a hard file link.
Move read/write file pointer.
Make a directory file.
Make fifos.
Create a special file.
Mount or unmount a file system.
Open for reading or writing.
Read from file.
Read a value of a symbolic link.
Change the name of a file.
Remove a directory file.
Get file status.
Get file system statistics.
Make a symbolic link to a file.
Synchronize disk block in-core status with that on disk.
Truncate a file.
Set file creation mode mask.
Remove a directory entry.
Set file access and modification times.
Write to a file.
The following library calls do not support multi-threaded applications:
Open a directory.
Close a directory>
Read directory entry.
Reset directory stream.
Scan a directory for matching entries.
Set the position of the next readdir() call in the directory stream.
Return current location in directory stream.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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