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62.Dd June 3, 2004
63.Dt VN_FULLPATH 9
64.Os
65.Sh NAME
66.Nm vn_fullpath
67.Nd construct a pathname by inspecting a vnode's namecache topology
68.Sh SYNOPSIS
69.In sys/param.h
70.In sys/vnode.h
71.Ft int
72.Fn vn_fullpath "struct proc *p" "struct vnode *vp" "char **retbuf" "char **freebuf" "int guess"
73.Sh DESCRIPTION
74The
75.Nm
76function makes an attempt to generate a string pathname with the
77passed-in vnode,
78.Fa vp .
79The returned path in
80.Fa retbuf
81will be relative to the root directory of the process associated with the
82.Fa p
83argument.
84.Pp
85Its arguments are:
86.Bl -tag -width freebuf
87.It Fa p
88The process performing the call; this pointer will be dereferenced to find
89the process and its file descriptor structure, in order to identify the
90root vnode to use.
91.It Fa vp
92The vnode for constructing the pathname; the vnode is used for enumerating
93its namecache topology.
94If
95.Dv NULL
96is supplied, then it is assumed that the client wants to use the
97vnode of the process image, i.e.,
98.Po
99.Va p->p_textvp
100.Pc .
101.It Fa retbuf [out]
102Pointer address to a
103.Va "char *"
104which
105.Nm
106uses for storing the address to a newly allocated buffer, containing the
107constructed pathname.
108.It Fa freebuf
109Auxiliary buffer that is used to by
110.Nm
111for temporary purposes.
112.It Fa guess
113If guess is not 0, the mountpoint will be guessed if it can't be determined when
114traversing the namecache entries upwards.
115.El
116.Pp
117Typical consumers will declare two character pointers: fullpath and
118freepath; they will set freepath to
119.Dv NULL ,
120and fullpath to a name to use
121in the event that the call to
122.Nm
123fails.
124After done with the value of fullpath, the caller will check if freepath
125is non-NULL, and if so, invoke
126.Xr kfree 9
127with a malloc type of
128.Dv M_TEMP .
129.Sh RETURN VALUES
130If the vnode can be successfully used to construct a pathname,
131.Ql 0
132is returned, otherwise an
133.Va errno
134value is returned.
135.Sh CODE REFERENCES
136All file references in this section are relative to the
137.Dx
138base source directory.
139.Pp
140The
141.Ql "Resident Executables"
142code utilizes the
143.Nm
144function;
145.Pa sys/kern/imgact_resident.c .
146.Sh SEE ALSO
147.Xr kfree 9 ,
148.Xr vnode 9
149.Sh AUTHORS
150.An -nosplit
151This manual page was written by
152.An Robert Watson Aq Mt rwatson@FreeBSD.org
153and adapted for
154.Dx
155by
156.An Hiten Pandya Aq Mt hmp@backplane.com .
157