168 lines
5.0 KiB
Groff
168 lines
5.0 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)pathconf.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt PATHCONF 2
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pathconf ,
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.Nm fpathconf
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.Nd get configurable pathname variables
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft long
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.Fn pathconf "const char *path" "int name"
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.Ft long
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.Fn fpathconf "int fd" "int name"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn pathconf
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and
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.Fn fpathconf
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functions provides a method for applications to determine the current
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value of a configurable system limit or option variable associated
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with a pathname or file descriptor.
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.Pp
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For
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.Fn pathconf ,
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the
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.Fa path
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argument is the name of a file or directory.
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For
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.Fn fpathconf ,
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the
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.Fa fd
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argument is an open file descriptor.
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The
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.Fa name
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argument specifies the system variable to be queried.
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Symbolic constants for each name value are found in the include file
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.Li <unistd.h> .
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.Pp
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The available values are as follows:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width "123456"
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.Pp
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.It Li _PC_LINK_MAX
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The maximum file link count.
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.It Li _PC_MAX_CANON
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The maximum number of bytes in terminal canonical input line.
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.It Li _PC_MAX_INPUT
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The minimum maximum number of bytes for which space is available in
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a terminal input queue.
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.It Li _PC_NAME_MAX
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The maximum number of bytes in a file name.
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.It Li _PC_PATH_MAX
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The maximum number of bytes in a pathname.
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.It Li _PC_PIPE_BUF
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The maximum number of bytes which will be written atomically to a pipe.
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.It Li _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
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Return 1 if appropriate privileges are required for the
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.Xr chown 2
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system call, otherwise 0.
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.It Li _PC_NO_TRUNC
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Return 1 if file names longer than KERN_NAME_MAX are truncated.
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.It Li _PC_VDISABLE
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Returns the terminal character disabling value.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If the call to
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.Fn pathconf
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or
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.Fn fpathconf
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is not successful, \-1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set appropriately.
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Otherwise, if the variable is associated with functionality that does
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not have a limit in the system, \-1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is not modified.
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Otherwise, the current variable value is returned.
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.Sh ERRORS
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If any of the following conditions occur, the
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.Fn pathconf
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and
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.Fn fpathconf
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functions shall return -1 and set
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.Va errno
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to the corresponding value.
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The value of the
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.Fa name
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argument is invalid.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The implementation does not support an association of the variable
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name with the associated file.
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.El
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.Fn Pathconf
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will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOOLONGAA
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named file does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.El
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width [EFAULT]
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.Fn Fpathconf
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will fail if:
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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.Fa fd
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is not a valid open file descriptor.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sysctl 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn pathconf
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and
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.Fn fpathconf
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functions first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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