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WALK(5)								       WALK(5)

NAME
       walk - descend a directory hierarchy

SYNOPSIS
       size[4] Twalk tag[2] fid[4] newfid[4] nwname[2] nwname*(wname[s])
       size[4] Rwalk tag[2] nwqid[2] nwqid*(qid[13])

DESCRIPTION
       The  walk  request  carries as arguments an existing fid and a proposed
       newfid (which must not be in use unless it is the same as fid) that the
       client  wishes to associate with the result of traversing the directory
       hierarchy by `walking' the hierarchy using  the	successive  path  name
       elements	 wname.	  The  fid must represent a directory unless zero path
       name elements are specified.

       The fid must be valid in the current session and	 must  not  have  been
       opened  for  I/O by an open or create message.  If the full sequence of
       nwname elements is walked successfully, newfid will represent the  file
       that  results.	If not, newfid (and fid) will be unaffected.  However,
       if newfid is in use or otherwise illegal, an Rerror is returned.

       The name ``..''	(dot-dot) represents the parent directory.   The  name
       ``.''   (dot), meaning the current directory, is not used in the proto‐
       col.

       It is legal for nwname to be zero, in which case newfid will  represent
       the same file as fid and the walk will usually succeed; this is equiva‐
       lent to walking to dot.	The rest of this discussion assumes nwname  is
       greater than zero.

       The  nwname  path  name	elements wname are walked in order, ``element‐
       wise''.	For the first elementwise walk to succeed, the file identified
       by  fid	must  be a directory, and the implied user of the request must
       have permission to search the  directory	 (see  intro(5)).   Subsequent
       elementwise  walks have equivalent restrictions applied to the implicit
       fid that results from the preceding elementwise walk.

       If the first element  cannot  be	 walked	 for  any  reason,  Rerror  is
       returned.   Otherwise, the walk will return an Rwalk message containing
       nwqid qids corresponding, in order, to the files that  are  visited  by
       the  nwqid  successful  elementwise  walks;  nwqid  is therefore either
       nwname or the index of the first elementwise  walk  that	 failed.   The
       value  of nwqid cannot be zero unless nwname is zero.  Also, nwqid will
       always be less than or equal to nwname.	Only if it is equal,  however,
       will  newfid  be affected, in which case newfid will represent the file
       reached by the final elementwise walk requested in the message.

       A walk of the name ``..''  in the root directory of a server is equiva‐
       lent to a walk with no name elements.

       If  newfid  is  the same as fid, the above discussion applies, with the
       obvious difference that if the walk changes the	state  of  newfid,  it
       also changes the state of fid; and if newfid is unaffected, then fid is
       also unaffected.

       To simplify the implementation of the servers,  a  maximum  of  sixteen
       name elements or qids may be packed in a single message.	 This constant
       is called MAXWELEM in styx(2) and styx(10.2).   Despite	this  restric‐
       tion,  the  system imposes no limit on the number of elements in a file
       name, only the number that may be transmitted in a single message.

ENTRY POINTS
       A call to sys-chdir(2) causes a walk.  One or more walk messages may be
       generated  by  any  of  the following calls, which evaluate file names:
       bind, create, mount, open, remove, stat, unmount, wstat.	 The file name
       element	.  (dot) is interpreted locally and is not transmitted in walk
       messages.

SEE ALSO
       sys-bind(2),  sys-chdir(2),  sys-open(2),  sys-remove(2),  sys-stat(2),
       intro(5)

								       WALK(5)
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