NAME
getfh —
get file handle
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
int
getfh(const
char *path, fhandle_t
*fhp);
DESCRIPTION
getfh()
returns a file handle for the specified file or directory
path in the file handle pointed to by
fhp. This system call is restricted to the
superuser.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
getfh() fails if one or more of the
following are true:
- [
ENOTDIR] - A component of the path prefix of path is not a directory.
- [
ENAMETOOLONG] - A component of a pathname exceeded
NAME_MAXcharacters, or an entire pathname (including the terminating NUL) exceededPATH_MAXbytes. - [
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.
- [
EPERM] - The effective user ID is not the superuser.
- [
EFAULT] - fhp or path points to an invalid address.
- [
EIO] - An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
- [
EINVAL] - A portion of path refers to a remote file system.
- [
EOPNOTSUPP] - A portion of path refers to a remote file system.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The getfh() function first appeared in
4.3BSD-Reno.