man/man9/VOP_LOOKUP.9

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.Dd November 24, 1997
.Dt VOP_LOOKUP 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm VOP_LOOKUP
.Nd lookup a component of a pathname
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In sys/vnode.h
.In sys/namei.h
.Ft int
.Fn VOP_LOOKUP "struct vnode *dvp" "struct vnode **vpp" "struct componentname *cnp"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This entry point looks up a single pathname component in a given directory.
.Pp
Its arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width vpp
.It Fa dvp
The locked vnode of the directory to search.
.It Fa vpp
The address of a variable where the resulting locked vnode should be stored.
.It Fa cnp
The pathname component to be searched for.
.El
.Pp
.Fa Cnp
is a pointer to a componentname structure defined as follows:
.Bd -literal
struct componentname {
	/*
	 * Arguments to lookup.
	 */
	u_long	cn_nameiop;	/* namei operation */
	u_long	cn_flags;	/* flags to namei */
	struct	thread *cn_thread;	/* thread requesting lookup */
	struct	ucred *cn_cred;	/* credentials */
	/*
	 * Shared between lookup and commit routines.
	 */
	char	*cn_pnbuf;	/* pathname buffer */
	char	*cn_nameptr;	/* pointer to looked up name */
	long	cn_namelen;	/* length of looked up component */
	u_long	cn_hash;	/* hash value of looked up name */
	long	cn_consume;	/* chars to consume in lookup() */
};
.Ed
.Pp
Convert a component of a pathname into a pointer to a locked vnode.
This is a very central and rather complicated routine.
If the file system is not maintained in a strict tree hierarchy,
this can result in a deadlock situation.
.Pp
The
.Fa cnp->cn_nameiop
argument is
.Dv LOOKUP ,
.Dv CREATE ,
.Dv RENAME ,
or
.Dv DELETE
depending on the intended use of the object.
When
.Dv CREATE ,
.Dv RENAME ,
or
.Dv DELETE
is specified, information usable in
creating, renaming, or deleting a directory entry may be calculated.
.Pp
Overall outline of VOP_LOOKUP:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
Check accessibility of directory.
Look for name in cache, if found, then return name.
Search for name in directory, goto to found or notfound as appropriate.
.Ed
.Pp
notfound:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
If creating or renaming and at end of pathname,
return
.Er EJUSTRETURN ,
leaving info on available slots else return
.Er ENOENT .
.Ed
.Pp
found:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
If at end of path and deleting, return information to allow delete.
If at end of path and renaming, lock target
inode and return info to allow rename.
If not at end, add name to cache; if at end and neither creating
nor deleting, add name to cache.
.Ed
.Sh LOCKS
The directory,
.Fa dvp
should be locked on entry.
If an error (note: the return value
.Er EJUSTRETURN
is not considered an error)
is detected, it will be returned locked.
Otherwise, it will be unlocked unless both
.Dv LOCKPARENT
and
.Dv ISLASTCN
are specified in
.Fa cnp->cn_flags .
If an entry is found in the directory, it will be returned locked.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Zero is returned with
.Fa *vpp
set to the locked vnode of the file if the component is found.
If the component being searched for is ".", then the vnode just has
an extra reference added to it with
.Xr vref 9 .
The caller must take care to release the locks appropriately in this
case.
.Pp
If the component is not found and the operation is
.Dv CREATE
or
.Dv RENAME ,
the flag
.Dv ISLASTCN
is specified and the operation would succeed, the special return value
.Er EJUSTRETURN
is returned.
Otherwise, an appropriate error code is returned.
.Sh ERRORS
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
The vnode
.Fa dvp
does not represent a directory.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The component
.Fa dvp
was not found in this directory.
.It Bq Er EACCES
Access for the specified operation is denied.
.It Bq Er EJUSTRETURN
A
.Dv CREATE
or
.Dv RENAME
operation would be successful.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr vnode 9 ,
.Xr VOP_ACCESS 9 ,
.Xr VOP_CREATE 9 ,
.Xr VOP_MKDIR 9 ,
.Xr VOP_MKNOD 9 ,
.Xr VOP_RENAME 9 ,
.Xr VOP_SYMLINK 9
.Sh HISTORY
The function
.Nm
appeared in
.Bx 4.3 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An Doug Rabson ,
with some text from comments in
.Pa ufs_lookup.c .