getfh(2) [hpux man page]

getfh(2)							System Calls Manual							  getfh(2)

NAME

       getfh() - return file handle for file on remote node

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The system call returns a file handle in the pointed to by fhp for the file pointed to by path.	This information is used to perform an NFS
       mount for a remote node.  is executed on the remote node; results are passed back to the program doing the NFS mount.   The  caller  should
       never examine the file handle contents.	The file handle only identifies a file to the node that produced the file handle.  (The term "file
       handle" refers to an NFS concept.)

       The effective user ID of the calling process must be superuser.

RETURN VALUE

       returns the following values:

	      Successful completion.
	      Failure.
		     is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       If fails, is set to one of the following values.

	      [EINVAL]	     Invalid argument, or the file or directory has not been exported by (see exportfs(1M)).

	      [ENOENT]	     File or directory specified by path does not exist.

	      [EPERM]	     The effective user ID is not superuser.

	      [EREMOTE]      The file or directory specified by path is a remote file or directory.

WARNINGS

       This call should be used only by HP-supplied commands and is not recommended for use by non-HP-supplied programs.

AUTHOR

       was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SEE ALSO

       exportfs(1M), mount(1M), vfsmount(2).

																	  getfh(2)

GETFH(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							  GETFH(2)

NAME

     getfh, lgetfh -- get file handle

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

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

     int
     getfh(const char *path, fhandle_t *fhp);

     int
     lgetfh(const char *path, fhandle_t *fhp);

DESCRIPTION

     The getfh() system call returns a file handle for the specified file or directory in the file handle pointed to by fhp.  The lgetfh() system
     call is like getfh() except in the case where the named file is a symbolic link, in which case lgetfh() returns information about the link,
     while getfh() returns information about the file the link references.  These system calls are restricted to the superuser.

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.

ERRORS

     The getfh() and lgetfh() system calls fail if one or more of the following are true:

     [ENOTDIR]		A component of the path prefix of path is not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]	The length of a component of path exceeds 255 characters, or the length of path exceeds 1023 characters.

     [ENOENT]		The file referred to by path does not exist.

     [EACCES]		Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix of path.

     [ELOOP]		Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating path.

     [EFAULT]		The fhp argument points to an invalid address.

     [EIO]		An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.

SEE ALSO

     fhopen(2), open(2), stat(2)

HISTORY

     The getfh() system call first appeared in 4.4BSD.

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