include/sys/pathname.h

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  26 /*      Copyright (c) 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T     */
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  29 /*
  30  * Portions of this source code were derived from Berkeley 4.3 BSD
  31  * under license from the Regents of the University of California.
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  33
  34 #ifndef _SYS_PATHNAME_H
  35 #define _SYS_PATHNAME_H
  36
  37 #ifdef  __cplusplus
  38 extern "C" {
  39 #endif
  40
  41 /*
  42  * Pathname structure.
  43  * System calls that operate on path names gather the path name
  44  * from the system call into this structure and reduce it by
  45  * peeling off translated components.  If a symbolic link is
  46  * encountered the new path name to be translated is also
  47  * assembled in this structure.
  48  *
  49  * By convention pn_buf is not changed once it's been set to point
  50  * to the underlying storage; routines which manipulate the pathname
  51  * do so by changing pn_path and pn_pathlen.  pn_pathlen is redundant
  52  * since the path name is null-terminated, but is provided to make
  53  * some computations faster.
  54  */
  55 typedef struct pathname {
  56         char    *pn_buf;                /* underlying storage */
  57         size_t  pn_bufsize;             /* total size of pn_buf */
  58 } pathname_t;
  59
  60 extern void     pn_alloc(struct pathname *);
  61 extern void     pn_alloc_sz(struct pathname *, size_t);
  62 extern void     pn_free(struct pathname *);
  63
  64 #ifdef  __cplusplus
  65 }
  66 #endif
  67
  68 #endif  /* _SYS_PATHNAME_H */