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Protocols for Interworking: XNFS, Version 3W
Copyright © 1998 The Open Group

Name

NFSPROC_LINK - Create Link to File

Call Arguments

struct linkargs { fhandle from; diropargs to; };

fhandle and diropargs are defined in Basic Data Types .

Return Arguments

stat status;

stat is defined in Basic Data Types .

RPC Procedure Description

stat NFSPROC_LINK(linkargs) = 12;

Description

Creates the file to.name in the directory given by to.dir, which is a hard link to the existing file given by from. If the return value is NFS_OK, a link was created. Any other return value indicates an error, and the link was not created.

Note that this is generally a non-idempotent operation. A server should attempt to provide this function in an idempotent fashion.

Return Codes

NFS_OK
Indicates that the call completed successfully and the results are valid.

NFSERR_PERM
Not owner. The caller does not have correct ownership to perform the requested operation.

NFSERR_IO
Some sort of hard error occurred when the operation was in progress. This could be a disk error, for example.

NFSERR_ACCES
Permission denied. The caller does not have the correct permission to perform the requested operation.

NFSERR_EXIST
File exists. The file specified already exists.

NFSERR_NOTDIR
Not a directory. The caller specified a non-directory in a directory operation.

NFSERR_NOSPC
No space left on device. The operation caused the server's file system to reach its limit.

NFSERR_ROFS
Read-only file system. Write attempted on a read-only file system.

NFSERR_NAMETOOLONG

File name too long. The filename in an operation was too long.

NFSERR_DQUOT
Disk quota exceeded. The client's disk quota on the server has been exceeded.

NFSERR_STALE
The fhandle given in the arguments was invalid. That is, the file referred to by that file handle no longer exists, or access to it has been revoked.


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