From 94fa222a96b5a9428474c0cbde8c64c13d7096b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Baldwin Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:36:39 +0000 Subject: - Update required headers for namei() to add and remove . - 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 --- share/man/man9/namei.9 | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'share/man/man9/namei.9') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3