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29.Dd January 23, 2007
30.Dt VIRTDIR 3
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm virtdir
34.Nd Utility routines for virtual directories for refuse operations
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In virtdir.h
37.Ft int
38.Fo virtdir_init
39.Fa "virtdir_t *tree" "struct stat *dir" "struct stat *file" "struct stat *symlink"
40.Fc
41.Ft int
42.Fo virtdir_add
43.Fa "virtdir_t *tree" "const char *name" "size_t namesize" "uint8_t type" "char *target"
44.Fc
45.Ft int
46.Fo virtdir_del
47.Fa "virtdir_t *tree" "const char *name" "size_t namesize"
48.Fc
49.Ft int
50.Fo virtdir_find
51.Fa "virtdir_t *tree" "const char *name" "size_t namesize"
52.Fc
53.Ft int
54.Fo virtdir_find_tgt
55.Fa "virtdir_t *tree" "const char *name" "size_t namesize"
56.Fc
57.Ft void
58.Fo virtdir_drop
59.Fa "virtdir_t *tree"
60.Fc
61.Ft VIRTDIR *
62.Fo openvirtdir
63.Fa "virtdir_t *tree" "const char *directory"
64.Fc
65.Ft virt_dirent_t *
66.Fo readvirtdir
67.Fa "VIRTDIR *dirp"
68.Fc
69.Ft void
70.Fo closevirtdir
71.Fa "VIRTDIR *dirp"
72.Fc
73.Sh DESCRIPTION
74.Nm
75provides virtual directory functionality for the benefit of
76.Xr refuse 3
77file systems (and also for FUSE-based file systems).
78.Pp
79It uses the framework provided by the
80.Xr puffs 3
81subsystem, and, through that, the kernel interface provided by
82.Xr puffs 4 .
83.Pp
84The
85.Nm
86routines build up and manage a list of virtual directory entries.
87Each virtual directory entry is indexed by its full pathname within
88the file system.
89This is consistent with the way that
90.Xr refuse 3
91locates directory entries - by full pathname.
92.Pp
93The list of paths is sorted alphabetically.
94Each of these virtual directory entries has a distinct type -
95file
96.Pq Sq f ,
97directory
98.Pq Sq d ,
99or symbolic link
100.Pq Sq l .
101Additionally, an entry can point to a target - this
102is useful when modeling virtual directory entries which are
103symbolic links.
104The list contains three basic
105.Xr stat 2
106structures, which contain basic information for file, directory
107and symbolic link entries.
108This information can be specified at
109initialization time, and customized within the individual
110getattr operation routines as specified by the
111individual file systems.
112The
113.Nm
114functionality can also make virtual directory entries available
115on a per-directory basis
116to the caller by means of routines analogous to
117.Xr opendir 3 ,
118.Xr readdir 3 ,
119and
120.Xr closedir 3 .
121These are
122.Fn openvirtdir ,
123.Fn readvirtdir ,
124and
125.Fn closevirtdir ,
126respectively.
127.Sh SEE ALSO
128.Xr puffs 3 ,
129.Xr refuse 3 ,
130.Xr puffs 4
131.Sh HISTORY
132An unsupported experimental version of
133.Nm
134first appeared in
135.Nx 5.0 .
136.Sh AUTHORS
137.An Alistair Crooks Aq agc@NetBSD.org
138