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35 .Nd "convert a vnode reference to a full pathname, given a process context"
41 .Fa "struct thread *td" "struct vnode *vp" "char **retbuf" "char **freebuf"
48 attempt to generate a string pathname for
49 the passed (locked) vnode; the resulting path, if any, will be relative to
50 the root directory of the process associated with the passed thread pointer.
54 is implemented by inspecting the VFS name cache, and attempting to
55 reconstruct a path from the process root to the object.
57 This process is necessarily unreliable for several reasons: intermediate
58 entries in the path may not be found in the cache; files may have more
59 than one name (hard links), not all file systems use the name cache
60 (specifically, most synthetic file systems do not); a single name may
61 be used for more than one file (in the context of file systems covering
62 other file systems); a file may have no name (if deleted but still
64 However, the resulting string may still be more useable to a user than
65 a vnode pointer value, or a device number and inode number.
66 Code consuming the results of this function should anticipate (and
67 properly handle) failure.
70 .Bl -tag -width ".Fa freebuf"
72 The thread performing the call; this pointer will be dereferenced to find
73 the process and its file descriptor structure, in order to identify the
76 The vnode to search for; must be locked by the caller.
82 may (on success) point at a newly
83 allocated buffer containing the resulting pathname.
89 may (on success) point at a buffer
90 to be freed, when the caller is done with
94 Typical consumers will declare two character pointers:
105 in the event that the call to
108 After done with the value of
110 the caller will check if
119 If the vnode is successfully converted to a pathname, 0 is returned;
120 otherwise, an error number is returned.
124 This manual page was written by
125 .An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .