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FHOPEN(2)		       System Calls Manual		       FHOPEN(2)

NAME
     fhopen, fhstat, fhstatfs -- access file via file handle

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/param.h>
     #include <sys/mount.h>
     #include <sys/stat.h>

     int
     fhopen(const fhandle_t *fhp, int flags);

     int
     fhstat(const fhandle_t *fhp, struct stat *sb);

     int
     fhstatfs(const fhandle_t *fhp, struct statfs *buf);

DESCRIPTION
     These  system  calls provide a means to access a file given the file handle
     fhp.  As this method bypasses directory access  restrictions,  these  calls
     are restricted to the superuser.

     The  fhopen()  system  call  opens  the  file referenced by fhp for reading
     and/or writing as specified by the argument flags and returns the file  de-
     scriptor to the calling process.  The flags argument is specified by or'ing
     together  the  flags  used for the open(2) system call.  All said flags are
     valid except for O_CREAT.

     The fhstat() and fhstatfs() system calls provide the functionality  of  the
     fstat(2)  and  fstatfs(2) calls except that they return information for the
     file referred to by fhp rather than an open file.

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion, fhopen() returns the file  descriptor	for  the
     opened  file;  otherwise  the  value -1 is returned and the global variable
     errno is set to indicate the error.

     The fhstat() and fhstatfs() functions return the  value  0  if  successful;
     otherwise	the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to
     indicate the error.

ERRORS
     In addition to the errors returned by open(2), fstat(2), and fstatfs(2) re-
     spectively, fhopen(), fhstat(), and fhstatfs() will return

     [EINVAL]		Calling fhopen() with O_CREAT set.

     [ESTALE]		The file handle fhp is no longer valid.

SEE ALSO
     fstat(2), fstatfs(2), getfh(2), open(2)

HISTORY
     The fhopen(), fhstat(), and  fhstatfs()  system  calls  first  appeared  in
     NetBSD 1.5 and were adapted to FreeBSD 4.0 by Alfred Perlstein.

AUTHORS
     This manual page was written by William Studenmund for NetBSD.

FreeBSD 8.3			  June 29, 1999 		       FHOPEN(2)
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