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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)pathconf.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 4, 1993 37.Dt PATHCONF 2 38.Os BSD 4 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm fpathconf , 41.Nm pathconf 42.Nd get configurable pathname variables 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Fd #include <unistd.h> 45.Ft long 46.Fo fpathconf 47.Fa "int fildes" 48.Fa "int name" 49.Fc 50.Ft long 51.Fo pathconf 52.Fa "const char *path" 53.Fa "int name" 54.Fc 55.Sh DESCRIPTION 56.Pp 57The 58.Fn pathconf 59and 60.Fn fpathconf 61functions provides a method for applications to determine the current 62value of a configurable system limit or option variable associated 63with a pathname or file descriptor. 64.Pp 65For 66.Nm pathconf , 67the 68.Fa path 69argument is the name of a file or directory. 70For 71.Nm fpathconf , 72the 73.Fa fildes 74argument is an open file descriptor. 75The 76.Fa name 77argument specifies the system variable to be queried. 78Symbolic constants for each name value are found in the include file 79.Li <unistd.h> . 80.Pp 81The available values are as follows: 82.Pp 83.Bl -tag -width "123456" 84.Pp 85.It Li _PC_LINK_MAX 86The maximum file link count. 87.It Li _PC_MAX_CANON 88The maximum number of bytes in terminal canonical input line. 89.It Li _PC_MAX_INPUT 90The minimum maximum number of bytes for which space is available in 91a terminal input queue. 92.It Li _PC_NAME_MAX 93The maximum number of bytes in a file name. 94.It Li _PC_PATH_MAX 95The maximum number of bytes in a pathname. 96.It Li _PC_PIPE_BUF 97The maximum number of bytes which will be written atomically to a pipe. 98.It Li _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED 99Return 1 if appropriate privileges are required for the 100.Xr chown 2 101system call, otherwise 0. 102.It Li _PC_NO_TRUNC 103Return 1 if file names longer than KERN_NAME_MAX are truncated. 104.It Li _PC_VDISABLE 105Returns the terminal character disabling value. 106.It Li _PC_XATTR_SIZE_BITS 107Returns the number of bits used to store maximum extended 108attribute size in bytes. For example, if the maximum 109attribute size supported by a file system is 128K, the 110value returned will be 18. However a value 18 can mean 111that the maximum attribute size can be anywhere from 112(256KB - 1) to 128KB. As a special case, the resource 113fork can have much larger size, and some file system 114specific extended attributes can have smaller and preset 115size; for example, Finder Info is always 32 bytes. 116.It Li _PC_MIN_HOLE_SIZE 117If a file system supports the reporting of holes (see 118.Xr lseek 2 ) , 119.Fn pathconf 120and 121.Fn fpathconf 122return a positive number that represents the minimum hole size returned in 123bytes. 124The offsets of holes returned will be aligned to this same value. 125A special value of 1 is returned if the file system does not specify the minimum 126hole size but still reports holes. 127.El 128.Sh RETURN VALUES 129If the call to 130.Nm pathconf 131or 132.Nm fpathconf 133is not successful, \-1 is returned and 134.Va errno 135is set appropriately. 136Otherwise, if the variable is associated with functionality that does 137not have a limit in the system, \-1 is returned and 138.Va errno 139is not modified. 140Otherwise, the current variable value is returned. 141.Sh ERRORS 142If any of the following conditions occur, the 143.Nm pathconf 144and 145.Nm fpathconf 146functions shall return -1 and set 147.Va errno 148to the corresponding value. 149.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOOLONGAA 150.\" =========== 151.It Bq Er EINVAL 152The value of the 153.Fa name 154argument is invalid. 155.\" =========== 156.It Bq Er EINVAL 157The implementation does not support an association of the variable 158name with the associated file. 159.El 160.Pp 161.Fn pathconf 162will fail if: 163.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOOLONGAA 164.\" =========== 165.It Bq Er EACCES 166Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. 167.\" =========== 168.It Bq Er EIO 169An I/O error occurs while reading from or writing to the file system. 170.\" =========== 171.It Bq Er ELOOP 172Too many symbolic links are encountered in translating the pathname. 173This is taken to be indicative of a looping symbolic link. 174.\" =========== 175.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG 176A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, 177or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. 178.\" =========== 179.It Bq Er ENOENT 180The named file does not exist. 181.\" =========== 182.It Bq Er ENOTDIR 183A component of the path prefix is not a directory. 184.El 185.Pp 186.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOOLONGAA 187.Fn fpathconf 188will fail if: 189.\" =========== 190.It Bq Er EBADF 191.Fa fildes 192is not a valid open file descriptor. 193.\" =========== 194.It Bq Er EIO 195An I/O error occurs while reading from or writing to the file system. 196.El 197.Sh SEE ALSO 198.Xr sysctl 3 199.Sh HISTORY 200The 201.Nm pathconf 202and 203.Nm fpathconf 204functions first appeared in 4.4BSD. 205