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.Dd July 24, 1996
.Os
.Dt VOP_PATHCONF 9
.Sh NAME
.Nm VOP_PATHCONF
.Nd return POSIX pathconf information
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In sys/vnode.h
.In sys/unistd.h
.Ft int
.Fn VOP_PATHCONF "struct vnode *vp" "int name" "int *retval"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The arguments are:
.Bl -tag -width retval
.It Fa vp
the vnode to get information about
.It Fa name
the type of information to return
.It Fa retval
the place to return the information
.El
.Pp
The value of
.Fa name
specifies what should be returned:
.Bl -tag -width _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
.It Dv _PC_LINK_MAX
The maximum number of links to a file.
.It Dv _PC_NAME_MAX
The maximum number of bytes in a file name.
.It Dv _PC_PATH_MAX
The maximum number of bytes in a pathname.
.It Dv _PC_PIPE_BUF
The maximum number of bytes which will be written atomically to a pipe.
.It Dv _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
Return 1 if appropriate privileges are required for the
.Xr chown 2
system call, otherwise 0.
.It Dv _PC_NO_TRUNC
Return 1 if file names longer than
.Dv KERN_NAME_MAX
are truncated.
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If
.Fa name
is recognized,
.Fa *retval
is set to the specified value and zero is returned, otherwise
.Er EINVAL
is returned.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pathconf 2 ,
.Xr vnode 9
.Sh AUTHORS
This man page was written by
.An Doug Rabson .