PXFPATHCONF

POSIX Subroutine: Gets the value for a configuration option of an opened file.

Module: USE IFPOSIX

Syntax

CALL PXFPATHCONF (path, ilen, name, ival, ierror)

path
(Input) Character. The path to the opened file.


ilen
(Input) INTEGER(4). The length of path.


name
(Input) INTEGER(4). The configurable option.


ival
(Input) INTEGER(4). The value of the configurable option.


ierror
(Output) INTEGER(4). The error status.

If successful, ierror is set to zero; otherwise, an error code.

The PXFPATHCONF subroutine gets a value for the configuration option named for the opened file with path path.

The configuration option, defined in name, can be obtained by using PXFCONST or IPXFCONST with one of the following constant names:

Constant Action
_PC_LINK_MAX Returns the maximum number of links to the file. If path refers to a directory, then the value applies to the whole directory.
_PC_MAX_CANON1 Returns the maximum length of a formatted input line; the path must refer to a terminal.
_PC_MAX_INPUT1 Returns the maximum length of an input line; the path must refer to a terminal.
_PC_NAME_MAX Returns the maximum length of a filename in path that the process is allowed to create.
_PC_PATH_MAX Returns the maximum length of a relative pathname when path is the current working directory.
_PC_PIPE_BUF Returns the size of the pipe buffer; the path must refer to a FIFO.
_PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED1 Returns nonzero if PXFCHOWN may not be used on this file. If path refers to a directory, then this applies to all files in that directory.
_PC_NO_TRUNC1 Returns nonzero if accessing filenames longer than _POSIX_NAME_MAX will generate an error.
_PC_VDISABLE1 Returns nonzero if special character processing can be disabled; the path must refer to a terminal.
1 L*X, M*X

On Linux* and Mac OS* systems, the corresponding macros are defined in <unistd.h>. The values for name can be obtained by using PXFCONST or IPXFCONST when passing the string names of predefined macros in <unistd.h>. The following table shows the corresponding macro names for the above constants:

Constant Corresponding Macro
_PC_LINK_MAX _POSIX_LINK_MAX
_PC_MAX_CANON _POSIX_MAX_CANON
_PC_MAX_INPUT _POSIX_MAX_INPUT
_PC_NAME_MAX _POSIX_NAME_MAX
_PC_PATH_MAX _POSIX_PATH_MAX
_PC_PIPE_BUF _POSIX_PIPE_BUF
_PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
_PC_NO_TRUNC _POSIX_NO_TRUNC
_PC_VDISABLE _POSIX_VDISABLE

See Also

IPXFCONST, PXFCONST, PXFFPATHCONF