<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >devfs_generate_path</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Kernel API" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The Device File System" HREF="c10385.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="devfs_get_handle_from_inode" HREF="r10771.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="devfs_get_ops" HREF="r10838.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Kernel API</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r10771.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r10838.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN10798" ></A ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >devfs_generate_path</SPAN ></SPAN ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN10802" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >devfs_generate_path -- Generate a pathname for an entry, relative to the devfs root. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN10805" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN10807" ></A ><P ></P ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >devfs_generate_path </TT ></CODE >(devfs_handle_t <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >de</I ></TT >, char * <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >path</I ></TT >, int <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >buflen</I ></TT >);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN10817" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >de</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The devfs entry. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >path</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The buffer to write the pathname to. The pathname and '\0' terminator will be written at the end of the buffer. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >buflen</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The length of the buffer. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN10835" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > Returns the offset in the buffer where the pathname starts on success, else a negative error code. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r10771.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r10838.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >devfs_get_handle_from_inode</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c10385.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >devfs_get_ops</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >