WALK(5) File Formats Manual WALK(5)
NAME
walk - descend a directory hierarchy
SYNOPSIS
Twalk tag[2] fid[2] name[28]
Rwalk tag[2] fid[2] qid[8]
DESCRIPTION
The walk request looks for the file name in the directory represented by fid.
For the walk to succeed, the file identified by fid must be a directory, and the implied user of the request must have permission to search
the directory (see intro(5)).
After a successful walk, fid represents the specified file. The qid for the new file is returned with the walk reply message.
A walk of the name .. in the root directory of a server is a no-op.
ENTRY POINTS
A call to chdir(2) causes a walk. One or more walk messages may be generated by any of the following calls, which evaluate file names:
bind, create, exec, mount, open, remove, stat, unmount, wstat. The file name element . (dot) is interpreted locally and is not transmit-
ted in walk messages.
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