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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY 52.\" DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 53.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 54.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER 55.\" CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 56.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 57.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH 58.\" DAMAGE. 59.\" 60.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man9/vn_fullpath.9,v 1.2 2004/01/11 19:57:42 rwatson Exp $ 61.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man9/vn_fullpath.9,v 1.4 2006/10/30 13:47:59 swildner Exp $ 62.\" 63.Dd June 03, 2004 64.Dt VN_FULLPATH 9 65.Os 66.Sh NAME 67.Nm vn_fullpath 68.Nd construct a pathname by inspecting a vnode's namecache topology 69.Sh SYNOPSIS 70.In sys/param.h 71.In sys/vnode.h 72.Ft int 73.Fn vn_fullpath "struct proc *p" "struct vnode *vp" "char **retbuf" "char **freebuf" 74.Sh DESCRIPTION 75The 76.Nm 77function makes an attempt to generate a string pathname with the 78passed-in vnode, 79.Fa vp . 80The returned path in 81.Fa retbuf 82will be relative to the root directory of the process associated with the 83.Fa p 84argument. 85.Pp 86Its arguments are: 87.Bl -tag -width freebuf 88.It Fa p 89The process performing the call; this pointer will be dereferenced to find 90the process and its file descriptor structure, in order to identify the 91root vnode to use. 92.It Fa vp 93The vnode for constructing the pathname; the vnode is used for enumerating 94its namecache topology. 95If 96.Dv NULL 97is supplied, then it is assumed that the client wants to use the 98vnode of the process image, i.e., 99.Po 100.Va p->p_textvp 101.Pc . 102.It Fa retbuf [out] 103Pointer address to a 104.Va "char *" 105which 106.Nm 107uses for storing the address to a newly allocated buffer, containing the 108constructed pathname. 109.It Fa freebuf 110Auxiliary buffer that is used to by 111.Nm 112for temporary purposes. 113.El 114.Pp 115Typical consumers will declare two character pointers: fullpath and 116freepath; they will set freepath to 117.Dv NULL , 118and fullpath to a name to use 119in the event that the call to 120.Nm 121fails. 122After done with the value of fullpath, the caller will check if freepath 123is non-NULL, and if so, invoke 124.Xr kfree 9 125with a malloc type of 126.Dv M_TEMP . 127.Sh RETURN VALUES 128If the vnode can be successfully used to construct a pathname, 129.Ql 0 130is returned, otherwise an 131.Li errno 132value is returned. 133.Sh CODE REFERENCES 134All file references in this section are relative to the 135.Dx 136base source directory. 137.Pp 138The 139.Ql "Resident Executables" 140code utilizes the 141.Nm 142function; 143.Pa sys/kern/imgact_resident.c . 144.Sh SEE ALSO 145.Xr kfree 9 , 146.Xr vnode 9 147.Sh AUTHORS 148.An -nosplit 149This manual page was written by 150.An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org 151and adapted for 152.Dx 153by 154.An Hiten Pandya Aq hmp@backplane.com . 155