GSP
Quick Navigator

Search Site

Unix VPS
A - Starter
B - Basic
C - Preferred
D - Commercial
MPS - Dedicated
Previous VPSs
* Sign Up! *

Support
Contact Us
Online Help
Handbooks
Domain Status
Man Pages

FAQ
Virtual Servers
Pricing
Billing
Technical

Network
Facilities
Connectivity
Topology Map

Miscellaneous
Server Agreement
Year 2038
Credits
 

USA Flag

 

 

Man Pages
FHOPEN(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual FHOPEN(2)

fhopen, fhstat, fhstatfs
access file via file handle

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

int
fhopen(const fhandle_t *fhp, int flags);

int
fhstat(const fhandle_t *fhp, struct stat *sb);

int
fhstatfs(const fhandle_t *fhp, struct statfs *buf);

These system calls provide a means to access a file given the file handle fhp. As this method bypasses directory access restrictions, these calls are restricted to the superuser.

The fhopen() system call opens the file referenced by fhp for reading and/or writing as specified by the argument flags and returns the file descriptor to the calling process. The flags argument is specified by or'ing together the flags used for the open(2) system call. All said flags are valid except for O_CREAT.

The fhstat() and fhstatfs() system calls provide the functionality of the fstat(2) and fstatfs(2) calls except that they return information for the file referred to by fhp rather than an open file.

Upon successful completion, fhopen() returns the file descriptor for the opened file; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.


The fhstat() and fhstatfs() functions return the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

In addition to the errors returned by open(2), fstat(2), and fstatfs(2) respectively, fhopen(), fhstat(), and fhstatfs() will return
[]
Calling fhopen() with O_CREAT set.
[]
The file handle fhp is no longer valid.

fstat(2), fstatfs(2), getfh(2), open(2)

The fhopen(), fhstat(), and fhstatfs() system calls first appeared in NetBSD 1.5 and were adapted to FreeBSD 4.0 by Alfred Perlstein.

This manual page was written by William Studenmund for NetBSD.
June 29, 1999 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

Search for    or go to Top of page |  Section 2 |  Main Index

Powered by GSP Visit the GSP FreeBSD Man Page Interface.
Output converted with ManDoc.