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authorJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-14 14:36:39 +0000
committerJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-14 14:36:39 +0000
commit94fa222a96b5a9428474c0cbde8c64c13d7096b7 (patch)
treecc97235fea2a61e78bd77872018cce22be4f7fe5 /share/man/man9/namei.9
parente09c00cadad669aaa347eb4064b4ebb068798bcf (diff)
- Update required headers for namei() to add <sys/fcntl.h> and remove
<sys/proc.h>. - Add RETURN VALUES and ERROR sections for namei()'s error return values. - Add a missing link to NDHASGIANT.9. PR: docs/142815, docs/142816 Submitted by: Lachlan Kang (1, 2) MFC after: 3 days
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=202284
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
.Nd pathname translation and lookup operations
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
-.In sys/proc.h
+.In sys/fcntl.h
.In sys/namei.h
.Ft int
.Fn namei "struct nameidata *ndp"
@@ -315,6 +315,34 @@ flag can be passed to the
.Fn NDFREE
function.
.El
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If successful,
+.Fn namei
+will return 0, otherwise it will return an error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+Errors which
+.Fn namei
+may return:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
+A component of the specified pathname is not a directory when a directory is
+expected.
+.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
+A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
+or an entire pathname exceeded 1023 characters.
+.It Bq Er ENOENT
+A component of the specified pathname does not exist,
+or the pathname is an empty string.
+.It Bq Er ACCES
+An attempt is made to access a file in a way forbidden by its file access
+permissions.
+.It Bq Er ELOOP
+Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
+.It Bq Er EISDIR
+An attempt is made to open a directory with write mode specified.
+.It Bq Er EROFS
+An attempt is made to modify a file or directory on a read-only file system.
+.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag
.It Pa src/sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c