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UKFS(3)                 NetBSD Library Functions Manual                UKFS(3)


NAME

     ukfs -- user kernel file system library interface


LIBRARY

     ukfs Library (libukfs, -lukfs)


SYNOPSIS

     #include <rump/ukfs.h>


DESCRIPTION

     The ukfs library provides direct access to file systems without having to
     specially mount a file system.  Therefore, accessing a file system
     through ukfs requires no special kernel support apart from standard POSIX
     functionality.  As ukfs is built upon rump(3) kernels, all kernel file
     systems which are supported by rump kernels are available.  It allows to
     write utilities for accessing file systems without having to duplicate
     file system internals knowledge already present in kernel file system
     drivers.

     ukfs provides a high-level pathname based interface for accessing file
     systems.  If a lower level interface it desired, rump(3) kernels should
     be used directly.  However, much like system calls, the interfaces of
     ukfs, are self-contained and require no tracking and release of
     resources.  The only exception is the file system handle struct ukfs
     which should be released after use.


INITIALIZATION

     int
     ukfs_init()

     int
     ukfs_modload(const char *fname)

     int
     ukfs_modload_dir(const char *dirname)

     ssize_t
     ukfs_vfstypes(char *buf, size_t buflen)

     struct ukfs *
     ukfs_mount(const char *vfsname, const char *devpath, const char
     *mountpath, int mntflags, void *arg, size_t alen)

     struct ukfs *
     ukfs_mount_disk(const char *vfsname, const char *devpath, int partition,
     const char *mountpath, int mntflags, void *arg, size_t alen)

     int
     ukfs_release(struct ukfs *ukfs, int flags)

     ukfs_init() intializes the library and must be called once per process
     using ukfs.

     ukfs_modload() is used at runtime to dynamically load a library which
     contains a file system module.  For this to succeed, the rump(3) kernel
     and the module targetted must be compiled with compatible kernel versions
     and the application must be dynamically linked.  Additionally, since this
     routine does not handle dependencies, all the dependencies of the library
     must be loaded beforehand.  The routine returns -1 for fatal error, 0 for
     dependency failure and 1 for success.

     ukfs_modload_dir() loads all rump(3) kernel file system components in
     directory dirname.  It looks for libraries which begin with librumpfs_
     and end in .so.  The routine tries to handle dependencies by retrying to
     load libraries which failed due to dependencies.  ukfs_modload_dir()
     returns the number of vfs modules loaded or sets errno and returns -1 in
     case of a fatal error in directory searching.  In case a fatal error
     occurs after some modules have already been loaded, the number of loaded
     module is returned.  Fatal errors in loading the modules themselves are
     ignored and ukfs_modload() should be used directly if finegrained error
     reporting is desired.

     It should be noted that the above routines affect the whole process, not
     just a specific instance of ukfs.  It is preferable to call them from
     only one thread, as the underlying dynamic library interfaces may not be
     threadsafe.

     ukfs_vfstypes() queries the available file system types and returns a
     nul-terminated list of types separated by spaces in buf.  The format of
     the list is equivalent to the one returned by sysctl(3) on the name
     vfs.generic.fstypes.  The function returns the length of the string with-
     out the trailing nul or -1 for error.  Notably, the return value 0 means
     there are no file systems available.  If there is not enough room in the
     caller's buffer for all file system types, as many as fit will be
     returned.

     ukfs_mount() intializes a file system image.  The handle resulting from
     the operation is passed to all other routines and identifies the instance
     of the mount analoguous to what a pathname specifies in a normally
     mounted file system.  The parameters are the following:

           vfsname
                Name of the file system to be used, e.g.  MOUNT_FFS.

           devpath
                Path of file system image.  It can be either a regular file,
                device or, if the file system does not support the concept of
                a device, an abitrary string, e.g. network address.

           mountpath
                Path where the file system is mounted to.  This parameter is
                used only by the file system being mounted.  Most of the time
                UKFS_DEFAULTMP is the correct path.

           mntflags
                Flags as passed to the mount(2) system call, for example
                MNT_RDONLY.  In addition to generic parameters, file system
                specific parameters such as MNT_LOG (ffs) may be passed here.

           arg  File system private argument structure.  This is passed
                directly to the file system.  It must match what vfsname
                expects.

           alen
                Size of said structure.

     The ukfs_mount_disk() function must be used to mount disk-based file sys-
     tems.  It takes the same arguments as ukfs_mount(), except for an addi-
     tional argument signifying the partition number.  If the image devpath
     contains a disklabel, this value specifies the number of the partition
     within the image used as the file system backend.  If devpath does not
     contain a disklabel, the value UKFS_PARTITION_NONE must be used to signal
     that the file system backend is the entire image.

     ukfs_release() unmounts the file system and releases the resources asso-
     ciated with ukfs.  The return value signals the return value of the
     unmount operation.  If non-zero, ukfs will continue to remain valid.  The
     possible values for flags are:

           UKFS_RELFLAG_NOUNMOUNT  Do not unmount file system, just release
                                   ukfs handle.  Release always succeeds.

           UKFS_RELFLAG_FORCE      Forcefully unmount the file system.  This
                                   means that any busy nodes (due to e.g.
                                   ukfs_chdir()) will be ignored.  Release
                                   always succeeds.


OPERATION

     int
     ukfs_chdir(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *path)

     int
     ukfs_getdents(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *dirname, off_t *off, uint8_t
     *buf, size_t bufsize)

     ssize_t
     ukfs_read(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, off_t off, uint8_t
     *buf, size_t bufsize)

     ssize_t
     ukfs_write(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, off_t off, uint8_t
     *buf, size_t bufsize)

     int
     ukfs_create(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, mode_t mode)

     int
     ukfs_mknod(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *path, mode_t mode, dev_t dev)

     int
     ukfs_mkfifo(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *path, mode_t mode)

     int
     ukfs_mkdir(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, mode_t mode)

     int
     ukfs_remove(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename)

     int
     ukfs_rmdir(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename)

     int
     ukfs_link(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, const char *f_create)

     int
     ukfs_symlink(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, const char
     *linkname)

     ssize_t
     ukfs_readlink(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, char *linkbuf,
     size_t buflen)

     int
     ukfs_rename(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *from, const char *to)

     int
     ukfs_stat(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, struct stat
     *file_stat)

     int
     ukfs_lstat(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, struct stat
     *file_stat)

     int
     ukfs_chmod(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, mode_t mode)

     int
     ukfs_lchmod(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, mode_t mode)

     int
     ukfs_chown(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, uid_t uid, gid_t gid)

     int
     ukfs_lchown(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, uid_t uid, gid_t
     gid)

     int
     ukfs_chflags(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, u_long flags)

     int
     ukfs_lchflags(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, u_long flags)

     int
     ukfs_utimes(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, const struct timeval
     *tptr)

     int
     ukfs_lutimes(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *filename, const struct
     timeval *tptr)

     The above routines operate like their system call counterparts and the
     system call manual pages without the ukfs_ prefix should be referred to
     for further information on the parameters.

     The only call which modifies ukfs state is ukfs_chdir().  It works like
     chdir(2) in the sense that it affects the interpretation of relative
     paths.  If succesful, all relative pathnames will be resolved starting
     from the current directory.  Currently the call affects all accesses to
     that particular ukfs, but it might be later changed to be thread private.


UTILITIES

     int
     ukfs_util_builddirs(struct ukfs *ukfs, const char *pathname, mode_t mode)

     Builds a directory hierarchy.  Unlike mkdir, the pathname argument may
     contain multiple levels of hierarchy.  It is not considered an error if
     any of the directories specified exist already.


SEE ALSO

     rump(3)


HISTORY

     ukfs first appeared in NetBSD 5.0.


AUTHORS

     Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>


NOTES

     ukfs was an early attempt at an interface for kernel file systems running
     in userspace.

NetBSD 8.0                     February 13, 2014                    NetBSD 8.0