FHOPEN(2) BSD System Calls Manual FHOPEN(2)NAME
fhopen -- open a file by file handle
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
int
fhopen(const struct fhandle *fhp, int flags);
DESCRIPTION
The file specified by the given file handle is opened for reading and/or writing, as specified by the argument flags; the file descriptor is
returned to the calling process.
This system call is restricted to the super-user and is used by an NFS server's rpc.lockd(8) daemon to open a file in order to perform lock-
ing operations on it.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
fhopen() fails if one or more of the following are true:
[ESTALE] The file handle no longer refers to a valid, NFS-exported object.
[EPERM] The caller is not the super-user.
[EINVAL] There was a problem with the value of one of the arguments.
[EFAULT] fhp points to an invalid address.
SEE ALSO rpc.lockd(8)BSD January 9, 2007 BSD
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FHOPEN(2) BSD System Calls Manual FHOPEN(2)NAME
fhopen, fhstat, fhstatfs -- access file via file handle
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#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);
DESCRIPTION
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.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, fhopen() returns the file descriptor for the opened file; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global vari-
able 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.
ERRORS
In addition to the errors returned by open(2), fstat(2), and fstatfs(2) respectively, fhopen(), fhstat(), and fhstatfs() will return
[EINVAL] Calling fhopen() with O_CREAT set.
[ESTALE] The file handle fhp is no longer valid.
SEE ALSO fstat(2), fstatfs(2), getfh(2), open(2)HISTORY
The fhopen(), fhstat(), and fhstatfs() system calls first appeared in NetBSD 1.5 and were adapted to FreeBSD 4.0 by Alfred Perlstein.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by William Studenmund for NetBSD.
BSD June 29, 1999 BSD