Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   11362 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

GETFH(2)		  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual		      GETFH(2)

NAME
     getfh - get file handle

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/param.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, a value of 0 is returned.  Otherwise, -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]
		   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.

     [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
     fhstat(2)

HISTORY
     The getfh() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9

Vote for polarhome