FPATHCONF(3)                                        Linux Programmer's Manual                                       FPATHCONF(3)



NAME
       fpathconf, pathconf - get configuration values for files

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       long fpathconf(int fd, int name);
       long pathconf(char *path, int name);

DESCRIPTION
       fpathconf() gets a value for the configuration option name for the open file descriptor fd.

       pathconf() gets a value for configuration option name for the filename path.

       The  corresponding  macros  defined in <unistd.h> are minimum values; if an application wants to take advantage of values
       which may change, a call to fpathconf() or pathconf() can be made, which may yield more liberal results.

       Setting name equal to one of the following constants returns the following configuration options:

       _PC_LINK_MAX
              returns the maximum number of links to the file.  If fd or path refer to a directory, then the  value  applies  to
              the whole directory.  The corresponding macro is _POSIX_LINK_MAX.

       _PC_MAX_CANON
              returns  the maximum length of a formatted input line, where fd or path must refer to a terminal.  The correspond-
              ing macro is _POSIX_MAX_CANON.

       _PC_MAX_INPUT
              returns the maximum length of an input line, where fd or path must refer to a terminal.  The  corresponding  macro
              is _POSIX_MAX_INPUT.

       _PC_NAME_MAX
              returns  the  maximum length of a filename in the directory path or fd that the process is allowed to create.  The
              corresponding macro is _POSIX_NAME_MAX.

       _PC_PATH_MAX
              returns the maximum length of a relative pathname when path or fd is the current working  directory.   The  corre-
              sponding macro is _POSIX_PATH_MAX.

       _PC_PIPE_BUF
              returns  the  size  of  the pipe buffer, where fd must refer to a pipe or FIFO and path must refer to a FIFO.  The
              corresponding macro is _POSIX_PIPE_BUF.

       _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
              returns nonzero if the chown(2) call may not be used on this file.  If fd or path refer to a directory, then  this
              applies to all files in that directory.  The corresponding macro is _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED.

       _PC_NO_TRUNC
              returns nonzero if accessing filenames longer than _POSIX_NAME_MAX generates an error.  The corresponding macro is
              _POSIX_NO_TRUNC.

       _PC_VDISABLE
              returns nonzero if special character processing can be disabled, where fd or path must refer to a terminal.

RETURN VALUE
       The limit is returned, if one exists.  If the system does not have a limit for the requested resource,  -1  is  returned,
       and errno is unchanged.  If there is an error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to reflect the nature of the error.

CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES
       Files with name lengths longer than the value returned for name equal to _PC_NAME_MAX may exist in the given directory.

       Some returned values may be huge; they are not suitable for allocating memory.

SEE ALSO
       getconf(1), open(2), statfs(2), sysconf(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU                                                        1993-04-04                                               FPATHCONF(3)