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authorDoug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>1997-03-03 18:01:01 +0000
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This is the current draft of my filesystem manpages. Some files are
incomplete and some are just placeholders but I wanted to try to get something at least into 2.2 on the grounds that what I have is a lot better than nothing. I also wanted to commit something which documents the interfaces in 2.2 before I start updating the documentation for 3.0. This is a definite 2.2 candidate and is also relavent to 2.1 if people still care about that branch.
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+.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Doug Rabson
+.\"
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
+.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
+.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
+.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
+.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
+.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" $Id$
+.\"
+.Dd July 24, 1996
+.Os
+.Dt VOP_READLINK 9
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm VOP_READLINK
+.Nd read the target of a symbolic link
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/vnode.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/uio.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn VOP_READLINK "struct vnode *vp" "struct uio *uio" "struct ucred *cred"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This reads the target pathname of a symbolic link
+.Bl -tag -width uio
+.It Ar vp
+the vnode of the symlink
+.It Ar uio
+the location of the data to be read or written
+.It Ar cnp
+the credentials of the caller
+.El
+.Sh LOCKS
+The vnode should be locked on entry and will still be locked on exit.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Zero is returned on success, otherwise an error code is returned.
+.Sh PSEUDOCODE
+.Bd -literal
+int
+vop_readlink(struct vnode *vp, struct uio *uio, struct ucred *cred)
+{
+ int error = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Read the target of the symlink.
+ */
+ ...;
+
+ return error;
+}
+.Ed
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Bl -tag -width EIO
+.It Bq Er EIO
+a read error occurred while reading the contents of the symlink
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr vnode 9 ,
+.Xr uiomove 9
+.Sh AUTHORS
+This man page was written by Doug Rabson.