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31.Dd July 24, 1996
32.Dt VOP_PATHCONF 9
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm VOP_PATHCONF
36.Nd return POSIX pathconf information
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/vnode.h
40.In sys/unistd.h
41.Ft int
42.Fn VOP_PATHCONF "struct vnode *vp" "int name" "int *retval"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The arguments are:
45.Bl -tag -width retval
46.It Fa vp
47The vnode to get information about.
48.It Fa name
49The type of information to return.
50.It Fa retval
51The place to return the information.
52.El
53.Pp
54The value of
55.Fa name
56specifies what should be returned:
57.Bl -tag -width _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
58.It Dv _PC_LINK_MAX
59The maximum number of links to a file.
60.It Dv _PC_NAME_MAX
61The maximum number of bytes in a file name.
62.It Dv _PC_PATH_MAX
63The maximum number of bytes in a pathname.
64.It Dv _PC_PIPE_BUF
65The maximum number of bytes which will be written atomically to a pipe.
66.It Dv _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
67Return 1 if appropriate privileges are required for the
68.Xr chown 2
69system call, otherwise 0.
70.It Dv _PC_NO_TRUNC
71Return 1 if file names longer than
72.Dv KERN_NAME_MAX
73are truncated.
74.El
75.Sh RETURN VALUES
76If
77.Fa name
78is recognized,
79.Fa *retval
80is set to the specified value and zero is returned, otherwise
81.Er EINVAL
82is returned.
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr pathconf 2 ,
85.Xr vnode 9
86.Sh AUTHORS
87This manual page was written by
88.An Doug Rabson .
89