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FHOPEN(2) | System Calls Manual | FHOPEN(2) |
NAME¶
fhopen, fhstat, fhstatfs — access file via file handleLIBRARY¶
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)SYNOPSIS¶
#include <sys/param.h>#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/stat.h> int
fhopen(const fhandle_t *fhp, int flags); int
fhstat(const fhandle_t *fhp, struct stat *sb); int
fhstatfs(const fhandle_t *fhp, struct statfs *buf);
DESCRIPTION¶
These system calls provide a means to access a file given the file handle fhp. As this method bypasses directory access restrictions, these calls are restricted to the superuser. The fhopen() system call opens the file referenced by fhp for reading and/or writing as specified by the argument flags and returns the file descriptor to the calling process. The flags argument is specified by or'ing together the flags used for the open(2) system call. All said flags are valid except forO_CREAT
.
The fhstat() and fhstatfs() system calls
provide the functionality of the fstat(2) and
fstatfs(2) calls except that they return information for the
file referred to by fhp rather than an open file.
RETURN VALUES¶
Upon successful completion, fhopen() returns the file descriptor for the opened file; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.The fhstat() and fhstatfs() functions return the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS¶
In addition to the errors returned by open(2), fstat(2), and fstatfs(2) respectively, fhopen(), fhstat(), and fhstatfs() will return- [
EINVAL
] - Calling fhopen() with
O_CREAT
set. - [
ESTALE
] - The file handle fhp is no longer valid.
SEE ALSO¶
fstat(2), fstatfs(2), getfh(2), open(2)HISTORY¶
The fhopen(), fhstat(), and fhstatfs() system calls first appeared in NetBSD 1.5 and were adapted to FreeBSD 4.0 by Alfred Perlstein.AUTHORS¶
This manual page was written by William Studenmund for NetBSD.June 29, 1999 | Debian |