fpathconf()

return the value of a configurable limit associated with a file

Synopsis:

#include <unistd.h>
long fpathconf( int filedes, int name );

Description:

The fpathconf() function returns a value of a configurable limit indicated by name that is associated with the file indicated by filedes.

Configurable limits are defined in <unistd.h>, and contain at least the following values:

_PC_LINK_MAX

Maximum value of a file's link count.

_PC_MAX_CANON

Maximum number of bytes in a terminal's canonical input buffer (edit buffer).

_PC_MAX_INPUT

Maximum number of bytes in a terminal's raw input buffer.

_PC_NAME_MAX

Maximum number of bytes in a file name (not including the terminating null).

_PC_PATH_MAX

Maximum number of bytes in a pathname (not including the terminating null).

_PC_PIPE_BUF

Maximum number of bytes that can be written atomically when writing to a pipe.

_PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED

If defined (not -1), indicates that the use of the chown() function is restricted to a process with appropriate privileges, and to changing the group ID of a file to the effective group ID of the process or to one of its supplementary group IDs.

_PC_NO_TRUNC

If defined (not -1), indicates that the use of pathname components longer than the value given by _PC_NAME_MAX generates an error.

_PC_VDISABLE

If defined (not -1), this is the character value that can be used to individually disable special control characters in the termios control structure.

Returns:

The requested configurable limit. If an error occurs, -1 is returned and errno is set.

Errors:

EINVAL

name is invalid, or the indicated limit is not supported for this filedes.

EBADF

The argument filedes is invalid.

Examples:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

void main()
  {
    long value;

    value = fpathconf( 0, _PC_MAX_INPUT );
    printf( "Input buffer size is %ld bytes\n", value );
  }

Classification:

POSIX 1003.1

See also:

errno, pathconf()