getfh() systemcall

[Kishore Seshadri]

In article <1990Jul16.161053.4685 at duc220.uni-duisburg.de>, hz247bi at duc220 (Bieniek) writes:
>
>Hello,
>could someone be so nice and explain me the usage of the getfh
>systemcall which is available on machines running NFS-Kernels ?
>I know, it's a "read the funny source" Question, but I do not have
>access to BSD Kernel or Sun NFS sources.
>
On SunOS, the new getfh (4.x) takes a pathname:

int getfh(path, fh)
char *path;
fhandle_t *fh;

The old getfh took a file descriptor, so

getfh((char *)fd, fh)


works where fd is a file descriptor returned by open().


Kishore Seshadri
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