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+.\" Copyright (c) 2019-2024 Oracle. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL)
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.TH IOCTL-XFS-GETPARENTS 2 2024-04-09 "XFS"
+.SH NAME
+ioctl_xfs_getparents \- query XFS directory parent information
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.br
+.B #include <xfs/xfs_fs.h>
+.PP
+.BI "int ioctl(int " fd ", XFS_IOC_GETPARENTS, struct xfs_getparents *" arg );
+.PP
+.BI "int ioctl(int " fd ", XFS_IOC_GETPARENTS_BY_HANDLE, struct xfs_getparents_by_handle *" arg );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This command is used to retrieve the directory parent pointers of either the
+currently opened file or a file handle.
+Parent pointers point upwards in the directory tree from a child file towards a
+parent directories.
+Each entry in a parent directory must have a corresponding parent pointer in
+the child.
+
+Calling programs should allocate a large memory buffer and initialize a header
+of the following form:
+.PP
+.in +4n
+.nf
+struct xfs_getparents {
+ struct xfs_attrlist_cursor gp_cursor;
+ __u16 gp_iflags;
+ __u16 gp_oflags;
+ __u32 gp_bufsize;
+ __u64 __pad;
+ __u64 gp_buffer;
+};
+
+struct xfs_getparents {
+ struct xfs_handle gph_handle;
+ struct xfs_getparents gph_request;
+};
+.fi
+.in
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I gp_cursor
+tracks the progress of iterating through the parent pointers.
+Calling programs must initialize this to zero before the first system call
+and must not touch it after that.
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I gp_iflags
+control the behavior of the query operation and provide more information
+about the outcome of the operation.
+There are no input flags currently defined; this field must be zero.
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I gp_oflags
+contains information about the query itself.
+Possibly output flags are:
+.RS 0.4i
+.TP
+.B XFS_GETPARENTS_OFLAG_ROOT
+The file queried was the root directory.
+.TP
+.B XFS_GETPARENTS_OFLAG_DONE
+There are no more parent pointers to query.
+.RE
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I __pad
+must be zero.
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I gp_bufsize
+should be set to the size of the buffer, in bytes.
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I gp_buffer
+should point to an output buffer for the parent pointer records.
+
+Parent pointer records are returned in the following form:
+.PP
+.in +4n
+.nf
+
+struct xfs_getparents_rec {
+ struct xfs_handle gpr_parent;
+ __u16 gpr_reclen;
+ char gpr_name[];
+};
+.fi
+.in
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I gpr_parent
+is a file handle that can be used to open the parent directory.
+
+.PP
+The field
+.I gpr_reclen
+will be set to the number of bytes used by this parent record.
+
+.PP
+The array
+.I gpr_name
+will be set to a NULL-terminated byte sequence representing the filename
+stored in the parent pointer.
+If the name is a zero-length string, the file queried has no parents.
+
+.SH SAMPLE PROGRAM
+Calling programs should allocate a large memory buffer, initialize the head
+structure to zeroes, set gp_bufsize to the size of the buffer, and call the
+ioctl.
+The XFS_GETPARENTS_OFLAG_DONE flag will be set in gp_flags when there are no
+more parent pointers to be read.
+The below code is an example of XFS_IOC_GETPARENTS usage:
+
+.nf
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <xfs/linux.h>
+#include <xfs/xfs.h>
+#include <xfs/xfs_types.h>
+#include <xfs/xfs_fs.h>
+
+int main() {
+ struct xfs_getparents gp = { };
+ struct xfs_getparents_rec *gpr;
+ int error, fd;
+
+ gp.gp_buffer = (uintptr_t)malloc(65536);
+ if (!gp.gp_buffer) {
+ perror("malloc");
+ return 1;
+ }
+ gp->gp_bufsize = 65536;
+
+ fd = open("/mnt/test/foo.txt", O_RDONLY | O_CREAT);
+ if (fd == -1)
+ return errno;
+
+ do {
+ error = ioctl(fd, XFS_IOC_GETPARENTS, gp);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
+ for (gpr = xfs_getparents_first_rec(&gp);
+ gpr != NULL;
+ gpr = xfs_getparents_next_rec(&gp, gpr)) {
+ if (gpr->gpr_name[0] == 0)
+ break;
+
+ printf("inode = %llu\\n",
+ gpr->gpr_parent.ha_fid.fid_ino);
+ printf("generation = %u\\n",
+ gpr->gpr_parent.ha_fid.fid_gen);
+ printf("name = \\"%s\\"\\n\\n",
+ gpr->gpr_name);
+ }
+ } while (!(gp.gp_flags & XFS_GETPARENTS_OFLAG_DONE));
+
+ return 0;
+}
+.fi
+
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+On error, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.PP
+.SH ERRORS
+Error codes can be one of, but are not limited to, the following:
+.TP
+.B EFSBADCRC
+Metadata checksum validation failed while performing the query.
+.TP
+.B EFSCORRUPTED
+Metadata corruption was encountered while performing the query.
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+One or more of the arguments specified is invalid.
+.TP
+.B EMSGSIZE
+The record buffer was not large enough to store even a single record.
+.TP
+.B ENOMEM
+Not enough memory to retrieve parent pointers.
+.TP
+.B EOPNOTSUPP
+Repairs of the requested metadata object are not supported.
+.TP
+.B EROFS
+Filesystem is read-only and a repair was requested.
+.TP
+.B ESHUTDOWN
+Filesystem is shut down due to previous errors.
+.TP
+.B EIO
+An I/O error was encountered while performing the query.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+This API is specific to XFS filesystem on the Linux kernel.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ioctl (2)