NAME
lookupdcookie - return a directory entry's path SYNOPSIS int lookupdcookie(u64 cookie, char *buffer, sizet len); DESCRIPTION Look up the full path of the directory entry specified by the value cookie. The cookie is an opaque identifier uniquely identifying a par‐ ticular directory entry. The buffer given is filled in with the full path of the directory entry. For lookupdcookie() to return successfully, the kernel must still hold a cookie reference to the directory entry. RETURN VALUE On success, lookupdcookie() returns the length of the path string
copied into the buffer. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS EFAULT The buffer was not valid. EINVAL The kernel has no registered cookie/directory entry mappings at the time of lookup, or the cookie does not refer to a valid directory entry. ENAMETOOLONG The name could not fit in the buffer. ENOMEM The kernel could not allocate memory for the temporary buffer holding the path. EPERM The process does not have the capability CAPSYSADMIN required to look up cookie values. ERANGE The buffer was not large enough to hold the path of the direc‐ tory entry. VERSIONS Available since Linux 2.5.43. The ENAMETOOLONG error return was added in 2.5.70. CONFORMING TO
lookupdcookie() is Linux-specific. NOTES
lookupdcookie() is a special-purpose system call, currently used only by the oprofile profiler. It relies on a kernel driver to register cookies for directory entries. The path returned may be suffixed by the string " (deleted)" if the directory entry has been removed. COLOPHON
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Linux 2004-06-17 LOOKUPDCOOKIE(2)