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author | John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-01-14 14:36:39 +0000 |
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committer | John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-01-14 14:36:39 +0000 |
commit | 94fa222a96b5a9428474c0cbde8c64c13d7096b7 (patch) | |
tree | cc97235fea2a61e78bd77872018cce22be4f7fe5 /share/man/man9/namei.9 | |
parent | e09c00cadad669aaa347eb4064b4ebb068798bcf (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
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=202284
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man9/namei.9')
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/namei.9 b/share/man/man9/namei.9 index 19516651949f..1ffabfffa078 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/namei.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/namei.9 @@ -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 |