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34.Dd July 17, 2006
35.Dt FHOPEN 2
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm fhopen ,
39.Nm fhstat ,
40.Nm fhstatvfs
41.Nd access file via file handle
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libc
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In sys/types.h
46.Ft int
47.Fn fhopen "const void *fhp" "size_t fh_size" "int flags"
48.In sys/stat.h
49.Ft int
50.Fn fhstat "const void *fhp" "size_t fh_size" "struct stat *sb"
51.In sys/statvfs.h
52.Ft int
53.Fn fhstatvfs "const void *fhp" "size_t fh_size" "struct statvfs *buf"
54.Ft int
55.Fn fhstatvfs1 "const void *fhp" "size_t fh_size" "struct statvfs *buf" "int flags"
56.Sh DESCRIPTION
57These functions provide a means to access a file given the opaque file handle
58.Fa fhp
59and the size
60.Fa fh_size
61of the opaque object as returned by
62.Xr getfh 2 .
63As this method bypasses directory access restrictions, these calls are
64restricted to the superuser.
65.Pp
66.Fn fhopen
67opens the file referenced by
68.Fa fhp
69for reading and/or writing as specified by the argument
70.Fa flags
71and returns the file descriptor to the calling process.
72The
73.Fa flags
74are specified by
75.Em or Ns 'ing
76together the flags used for the
77.Xr open 2
78call.
79All said flags are valid except for
80.Dv O_CREAT .
81.Pp
82.Fn fhstat ,
83.Fn fhstatvfs ,
84and
85.Fn fhstatvfs1
86provide the functionality of the
87.Xr fstat 2 ,
88.Xr fstatvfs 2 ,
89and
90.Xr fstatvfs1 2
91calls except that they return information for the file referred to by
92.Fa fhp
93rather than an open file.
94.Sh RETURN VALUES
95Upon successful completion,
96.Fn fhopen
97returns the file descriptor for the opened file, while
98.Fn fhstat ,
99.Fn fhstatvfs ,
100and
101.Fn fhstatvfs1
102return 0.
103Otherwise, \-1 is returned and
104.Va errno
105is set to indicate the error.
106.Sh ERRORS
107In addition to the errors returned by
108.Xr open 2 ,
109.Xr fstat 2 ,
110.Xr fstatvfs 2 ,
111and
112.Xr fstatvfs1 2 ,
113respectively,
114.Fn fhopen ,
115.Fn fhstat ,
116.Fn fhstatvfs ,
117and
118.Fn fhstatvfs1
119will return
120.Bl -tag -width Er
121.It Bq Er EINVAL
122Calling
123.Fn fhopen
124with
125.Dv O_CREAT
126set or invalid
127.Fa fh_size .
128.It Bq Er ESTALE
129The file handle
130.Fa fhp
131is no longer valid.
132.El
133.Sh SEE ALSO
134.Xr fstat 2 ,
135.Xr fstatvfs 2 ,
136.Xr fstatvfs1 2 ,
137.Xr getfh 2 ,
138.Xr open 2
139.Sh HISTORY
140The
141.Fn fhopen ,
142and
143.Fn fhstat
144functions first appeared in
145.Nx 1.5 .
146The
147.Fn fhstatvfs
148function replaced
149.Fn fhstatfs
150in
151.Nx 3.0 .
152