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vn_fullpath.9freebsd

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NAME

vn_fullpath - convert a vnode reference to a full pathname, given a process context

SYNOPSIS

In sys/param.h In sys/vnode.h Ft int Fo vn_fullpath Fa struct thread *td struct vnode *vp char **retbuf char **freebuf Fc  

DESCRIPTION

The Fn vn_fullpath function makes a ``best effort'' attempt to generate a string pathname for the passed (locked) vnode; the resulting path, if any, will be relative to the root directory of the process associated with the passed thread pointer. The Fn vn_fullpath function is implemented by inspecting the VFS name cache, and attempting to reconstruct a path from the process root to the object.

This process is necessarily unreliable for several reasons: intermediate entries in the path may not be found in the cache; files may have more than one name (hard links), not all file systems use the name cache (specifically, most synthetic file systems do not); a single name may be used for more than one file (in the context of file systems covering other file systems); a file may have no name (if deleted but still open or referenced). However, the resulting string may still be more useable to a user than a vnode pointer value, or a device number and inode number. Code consuming the results of this function should anticipate (and properly handle) failure.

Its arguments are:

Fa td

The thread performing the call; this pointer will be dereferenced to find the process and its file descriptor structure, in order to identify the root vnode to use.

Fa vp

The vnode to search for; must be locked by the caller.

Fa retbuf

Pointer to a Vt char * that Fn vn_fullpath may (on success) point at a newly allocated buffer containing the resulting pathname.

Fa freebuf

Pointer to a Vt char * that Fn vn_fullpath may (on success) point at a buffer to be freed, when the caller is done with Fa retbuf .

Typical consumers will declare two character pointers: fullpath and freepath they will set freepath to NULL and fullpath to a name to use in the event that the call to Fn vn_fullpath fails. After done with the value of fullpath the caller will check if freepath is non- NULL and if so, invoke free(9) with a pool type of M_TEMP

RETURN VALUES

If the vnode is successfully converted to a pathname, 0 is returned; otherwise, an error number is returned.

SEE ALSO

free(9)

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .